Random Quotes
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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.Eugene S. Wilson
Dick, frankly you do not have the war plan... which makes me quite happy.Donald Rumsfeld, 1st briefing after "shock and awe" started
Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver, dear God, from Belief.A. Huxley, Island
...simple fact that any land looks like Eden after months at sea.Robert Hughes, Fatal Shore
A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.George S. Patton
Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.Bertrand Russell, "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.Bertrand Russell, "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others. It is much more nearly certain that we are assembled here tonight than it is that this or that political party is in the right. Certainly there are degrees of certainty, and one should be very careful to emphasize that fact, because otherwise one is landed in an utter skepticism, and complete skepticism would, of course, be totally barren and completely useless.Bertrand Russell, "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.John F. Kennedy
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo