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- No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
- I think we have six people who are really sort of OK. They are all good people. We don't have bad people. I know the bad people. Believe me, do I know bad people.
- Donald Trump (1946 - ), Interview in the New York Times, July 20, 2017
- To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 158
- You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
- Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
- But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.
- Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004), Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
- We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
- Christopher Reeve, Testimony to US House of Representative, 1999
- American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), speech, November 19, 1999
- The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.
- George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
- I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
- Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
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