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I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation has a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of anothe
hat every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they like...
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
-- H. G. Wells, (1866-1946) "The Outline of History" (1920) Ch. 41...
Charity is twice cursed--it hardens him that gives and softens him that takes.
-- Bouck White (1874-1951) "quoted in "The Cry for Justice" by Sinclai...
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
-- E. B. White (1899- ) "World Government and Peace" The New Yorker (1943)...
As for the Christian theology, can you imagine anything more appallingly idiotic than the Christian idea of heaven?
What kind of deity is it that would be capable of creating angels and men to si...
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
-- Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) "Aims of Education and Other Essay...
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "The Critic as Artist" (1891)...
Modern journalism by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "The Critic as Artist" (1891)...
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculus" [De Profundis]...

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