[By Nic Lindh on Saturday, 26 March 2016]
Just because nobody complains doesn’t mean all parachutes are perfect.
—Benny Hill
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of a kingdom.
—Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) via The QI Elves on Twitter
#The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
#In this day and age, when the increasing complexity of modern life leaves one barely any time for reading …
—Proust (1919) (via James Gleick)
#Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.
—Herman Melville
#You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
—Eric Hoffer
#Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
—Thomas Henry Huxley
#Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
—Bill Watterson
#Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
—H. L. Mencken
#It’s so much easier to suggest solutions when you don’t know too much about the problem.
—Malcolm Forbes
#The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they’ve found it.
—Sir Terry Pratchett
#The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
―Anatole France
#Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
―Kenneth Galbraith
#It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
―James Baldwin
#People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.
―John Kenneth Galbraith
#Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury.
―Cato the Elder
#Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
― Benjamin Franklin
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