From one of my smaller quotes files on this drive:
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Aldous Huxley Brave New World
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist someone who made the mistake of converting his ideals into expectations.
- Peter M. Senge
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts." - Richard Feynman
"Through this and other experiences I began to discern one of the elements of an education: get as near to the supposed masters and commanders as you can and see what stuff they are really made of. As I watched famous scholars and professors flounder here and there, I also, in my career as a speaker at the Oxford Union, had a chance to meet senior ministers and parliamentarians up close and dine with them before as well as drink with them afterward, and be amazed once again at how ignorant and sometimes plain stupid were the people who claimed to run the country. This was an essential stage of my formation and one for which I am hugely grateful." - Christopher Hitchens
Illegitimi non carborundum - "Don't let the bastards grind you down."
"If the Government were placed in charge of the Sahara Desert, they would run out of sand in 5 years." - Milton Friedman
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. - Hamlet (1.5.167-8)
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
"In general, we look for a new law by the following process: First we guess it; then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what would be implied if this law that we guessed is right; then we compare the result of the computation to nature, with experiment or experience, compare it directly with observation, to see if it works. If it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name isif it disagrees with experiment, it is wrong." - Richard Feynman
As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. - H.L. Mencken
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think. - Thomas Edison
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816
"We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs. - Will Rogers
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. George Carlin
At the end of the day, the king and pawn go back to the same box. Omar from The Wire
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. Arthur C. Clarke
Keep cool. Never freeze. bottle of mayonnaise
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. Max Lucado
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in a long-shot. Charlie Chaplin
A ship in harbor is safe, but thats not why ships are built. fortune cookie
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