Reason is a biological product -- a tool whose power is inherently and substantially restricted. It has improved how we do things; it has not changed why we do things. The more fundamental "why" element is driven by instinctive self-preservation, emotional needs, and cultural attitudes. We are usually reluctant to admit the extent to which these forces govern our behavior, and accordingly we often recruit reason to explain and justify our actions.
-- Donald B. Calne (Within Reason: Rationality and Human Behavior)

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
-- Jacob Bronowski

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Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
-- Barbara Tuchman

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Perhaps nothing government does, or will not stop doing, should be surprising in a country in which a Kansas bank was fined because it did not have Braille instructions on the ATM machines in its drive-through banking lanes.
-- George F. Will

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The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication... the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by the question "Why do we eat?" and the third by the question "Where shall we have lunch?"
-- Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
-- Isaac Asimov

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Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention... Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure his bite.
-- Abraham Lincoln

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

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The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
-- Voltaire

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It is a myth not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and a symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
-- Irwin Edman

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