Like sailors in a storm, expecting every instant to go to the bottom, the believers suddenly became religious, prayed violently, and flattered themselves that they repented them of their evil courses. But a plain tale soon put them down, and quenched their religion entirely.
~ Charles MacKay
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Jessica Tarlov – the American political strategist who currently who serves as one of the co-hosts of The Five on Fox News – was born on this day – March 9, 1984 – in New York City.
She holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and both a MSc and a PhD from the London School of Economics.
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The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist—almost fascist—society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented!
~ Jean-François Revel
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
~ Arthur Koestler
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Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
~ Arthur Koestler
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