Wisdom in SpaceHe who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
-- Chinese Proverb
We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.
-- Quintilian (35-90 CE)
The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
-- Alberto Brandolini (Bullshit Asymmetry Principle)
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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. [Anti-conservatism counters that:] The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
-- Frank Wilhoit
When possible, refer all matters to committees.
-- Simple Sabotage Field Manual (Declassified by the CIA in 2008)
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As a nation, be began by declaring that 'all men are created equal'.... When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty &mdash to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.
-- Abraham Lincoln
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To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never -- I repeat -- never under any conditions face the facts.
-- Ruth Gordon
Hope is not a strategy.
-- Thomas McInerney
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
