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G Gaia
The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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Colette
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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Unknown
Give, and forget Receive, and remember
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William Rotsler
How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
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George Santayana
It takes a wonderful brain and exquisite senses to produce a few stupid ideas.
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Aldous Huxley
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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Harriet Martineau
Readers are plentiful thinkers are rare.
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Dana Carvey
I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
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Russell Baker
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Is necessary to take such measures that, when they believe no longer, it may be possible to make them believe by force.
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