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“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself, that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors.”

Thomas Jefferson

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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

(He said this about Albert Einstein, by the way....:joy: )

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“Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”

Albert Einstein

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Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

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"Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard."

Robert Jackson

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“The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.”

Erich Fromm

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"Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work."

Pliny the Elder

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Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Alfred Hitchcock

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“When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.”

C.S. Lewis

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"Any reaction is better than none."

Gavin Rossdale