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Sunday, January 31, 2010

What we have to fear.

There is nothng more frightful than ignorance in action.


Goethe


Creativity

Masculinity is the most creative force in history.


Camille Paglia

Education

Human history becomes more and more a race
between education and catastrophe.

H. G. Wells

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Conviction

Doubt is not a pleasant condition,
but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

Certainty

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Charles Darwin

Friday, January 29, 2010

Not malice

Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
Napolean Bonaparte



or


It's easy to mistake conspiracy for collective stupidity - because the results can be identical.
C W

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Religion

Though enemies seek
Summer's cricket must sing.
In sect, we are alike.


Sin





Arrogance is an easy sin,

I, even I,

Have fallen in.