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Sometimes the majority just means all the idiots are on the same side.
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.
Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
- Often credited to William Ralph Inge
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Often credited to Emily DickinsonAmerica is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Often credited to Alexis de TocquevilleThe degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
Often credited to Fyodor Dostoyevsky- Often credited to Alexis de Tocqueville
- Often credited to Charles Darwin
Some people use language to express thought, some to conceal thought, and others instead of thought.
- As repeated by Samuel Johnson in Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (14 April 1775); an older proverb (George Herbert, 1640: “Hell is full of good meanings and wishings”)Often credited to Samuel Johnson
- As used by Carl Sagan in The Demon-Haunted World (1995), Introduction, p. 7Often credited to Carl Sagan
