You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
--Margaret Thatcher
We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
--Miguel de Unamuno, (1864-1936)
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
--Ronald Steel
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
--James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891)
Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.
--Bertrand Russell, (1872-1970)
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
--Carrie P. Snow
History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.
--Bob Dole
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.
--Maxwell Planck
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
--Emma Goldman
There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.
--Thomas Huxley, biologist and writer (1825-1895)
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
--Aldous Huxley
This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper.
--T.S. Eliot, (1888-1965)
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
--Stephen W. Hawking
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
--Albert Einstein
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am no more humble than my talents require.
--Oscar Levant, composer (1906-1972)
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
--Henry Havelock Ellis
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures.
--Georges Braque
An American can have a Ford in any color so long as its black.
--Henry Ford
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
--Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969)
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
--Chinese proverb
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
--John Muir, (1838-1914)
If the rich could hire someone else to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
--Jewish Proverb
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