Famous Quotes Update

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H. W. Dodds


A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.

Vernon A. Walters


Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

John Dewey


We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

Sydney Harris


Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Anthony D'Angelo


Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Carl L. Becker


No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

Israel Zangwill


The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.

Edward Keating


You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.

Robert Green Ingersoll


The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer


The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.

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