Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . .
BERGEN EVANSAuthors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
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There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
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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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Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.
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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity.
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The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
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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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That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
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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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A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement.
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Authors are magpies, echoing each other’s words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.
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Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.
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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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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
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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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