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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be...
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Critics are our friends, they tell us our faults.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is...
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There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men...
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That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt….but although our...
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely...
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Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can, from The Aeneid)
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We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that...
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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims....
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There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority....