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Frantz Fanos
For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted.
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Vernon Law
Experience is the worst teacher it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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Marcel Proust
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
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German proverb
He who would rule must hear and be deaf, see and be blind.
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Friedrich August von Hayek
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
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George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty-Four"
He who controls the past controls the future.
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Robert Anson Heinlein
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
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William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 4 scene 3
An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told.
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Rabbi Ben-Azai
In seeking wisdom thou are wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou are a fool.
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Manfred Eigen
A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility - it might be right but irrelevant.
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Henry de Bracton, De Legibus in 1240
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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Joseph Addison
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
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