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The first mistake...

The first mistake...

The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.

Source: Who Put the Bomp,...

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Reform is born...

Reform is born...

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented,...

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Humphrey Davy: To me there...

Humphrey Davy: To me there...

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in...

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Ernst Fischer: Man, became man...

Ernst Fischer: Man, became man...

Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial,...

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We are all...

We are all...

We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.

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Walter Gropius: Architects, painters, and...

Walter Gropius: Architects, painters, and...

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both...

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Some of our...

Some of our...

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write...

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Vannevar Bush: To pursue science...

Vannevar Bush: To pursue science...

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the...

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Vannevar Bush: A belief may...

Vannevar Bush: A belief may...

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Source: Science Is Not Enough, 1967.
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Richard Buckminster Fuller: What usually happens...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: What usually happens...

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so...

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America's health care...

America's health care...

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

Source: PBS...

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I asked [my...

I asked [my...

I asked [my doctors] if I'd be able to play singles tennis and they said I could. That made me very happy since I...

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Football combines the...

Football combines the...

Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee...

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The man who...

The man who...

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really...

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Nobody ever drowned...

Nobody ever drowned...

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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To repeat what...

To repeat what...

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

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Enthusiasms, like stimulants,...

Enthusiasms, like stimulants,...

Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

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You can't teach...

You can't teach...

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.

Source: In The Algonquin Wits, ed. by...

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We emphasize that...

We emphasize that...

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by...

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All changes, even...

All changes, even...

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must...

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