Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
AGNES REPPLIER
The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.
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Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin
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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
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The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.
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There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.
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If we go to church we are confronted with a system of begging so complicated and so resolute that all other demands sink into insignificance by its side.
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The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
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Bargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
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