James Nicoll on talking

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• A great many of those who ‘debunk’ traditional…values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process.

  C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Abolition of Man

  • Debate

• It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

  Mark Twain1835–1910

• If A is a success in life, than A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

  Albert Einstein1879–1955

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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