Authors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
BERGEN EVANSFor the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
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For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.
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There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
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It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can’t resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.
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For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
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An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.
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Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
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Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . .
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Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one’s vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.
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We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
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Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
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