"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
John Ruskin
"Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history."
Jacob M. Appel
"Never since the time of Copernicus have so many experts been so wrong so often with so little humility."
Anonymous
"His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore."
Ray Bradbury
"I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them."
Leon Kass
"When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over."
W.H. Auden
"Error of omission begets new rules."
Toba Beta
"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
Alexis de Tocqueville
"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."
Frank Buchman
"In the society of thinking humanity, the natural law of trust should be - In I, I trust."
Abhijit Naskar
"A loud mind is greater than a loud mouth."
Anonymous
"The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be."
Lawrence Schiller
"If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief."
Bryant McGill
"Dragons don't ask for maidens, he said. Dragons are offered maidens. Alys shook her head to show she didn't understand.Is a king likely to be a maiden? Or a village headman? It's the men who make the laws that decree that maidens be offered."
Vivian Vande Velde
"A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself."
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