People who know what kind of new world they want to create through revolution are trouble enough; those who only know what they want to destroy are a curse.
~ Mark Lilla
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Category Archives: 0859 – Quote Unquote
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If two or more clauses, grammatically complete and not joined by a conjunction, are to form a single compound sentence, the proper mark of punctuation is a semicolon.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Conversation is an art in which a person has all humanity for their competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable.
~ Rollo May
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Edgar Allan Poe is popularly known for writing early-American horror stories. But for me, he is a social scientist who used fiction instead of theory and statistics to make his arguments about human behavior.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
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Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature; it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves; it describes nature as exposed to our nature of questioning.
~ Werner Heisenberg
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Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
~ John le Carré
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Success in school is not the same thing as success in life. University administrators in the James Conant mold assumed that people who could earn high grades would continue to excel later in their career.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?
~ David Foster Wallace
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