Herbert Spencer Quotes
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
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Our elders are always optimistic in their views of the present, pessimistic in their views of the future; youth is pessimistic toward the present and gloriously hopeful for the future. And it is this hope which is the lever of progress-one might say, the only lever of progress.
Randolph Bourne
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If the government can round up someone and never be required to explain why, then it's no longer the United States of America as you and I always understood it. Our enemies have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. They have made us become like them.
Garrison Keillor
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais.1
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. laughter The lady's not for turning.
Margaret Thatcher
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In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry 'Native passes' issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.
Nelson Mandela
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We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
Charles Bukowski
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More and more smaller entities, such as Politico or TechCrunch, have been able to come out of nowhere and own entities. Dealbook, like them, now has an even greater opportunity, through additional resources, to drill down and offer even more breaking news and deep analysis of the issues that matter to our audience.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
Willa Cather
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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
