"An error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys you capacity to distinguish truth from error."
~ John Galt from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
~ Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays, 1959
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"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church."
~ Thomas Paine
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"We won't dispassionately investigate or rationally debate which drugs do what damage and whether or how much of that damage is the result of criminalization. We'd rather work ourselves into a screaming fit of puritanism and then go home and take a pill."
~ P.J. O'Rourke
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"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt."
~ Cicero, 63 BC
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"A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces are in a confederacy against him."
~ Frank Lloyd Wright |
