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"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Oscar Wilde

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"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams

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"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."


Oscar Wilde

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"You are providing for your disciples a show of wisdom without the reality. For, acquiring by your means much information unaided by instruction, they will appear to possess much knowledge, while, in fact, they will, for the most part, know nothing at all; and, moreover, be disagreeable people to deal with, as having become wise in their own conceit, instead of truly wise."

Socrates

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The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over.

Henrik Ibsen

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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Albert Einstein

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It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

Walter Bagehot

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"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."

Cicero

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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright,

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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

J. R. R. Tolkien