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The Circumstances Of The Modern World Make Nonsense Of The Pretensions To Moral Or Intellectual Granduer.
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The circumstances of the modern world make nonsense of the pretensions
to moral or intellectual granduer.
-- Lewis Lapham
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-- John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty", 1859...
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
-- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967), "An outline of Intellectual Tubbish...
It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense. -- Fredrich Hebbel