I don’t research anything. If I need something, I’ll invent it.
~ Mickey Spillane
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Category Archives: 0459 – Quote Unquote
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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.
~ Eric Hoffer
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If the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it.
~ James Baldwin
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The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
~ Mark Twain
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Photography is a medium of inescapable truthfulness. The camera doesn’t know how to lie.
~ Janet Malcolm
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Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be.
~ Daniel Kahneman
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If we all spoke circumspectly and wisely all the time, who would even need institutional free-speech policies? The point of speech rules is to allow space for the unguarded and the ill-tempered, for the provocative and prickly person as well as the smooth and sinuous. The smooth and sinuous will seldom say anything worth hearing in the first place.
~ David Frum via The Atlantic
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It’s a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
~ Henry James
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You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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