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Jean Giraudoux - "Only the mediocre are always at their best." | Jean Giraudoux - "Only the mediocre are always at their best." | ||
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Arthur Conan Doyle - "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained." | Arthur Conan Doyle - "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained." | ||
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| + | McCain and Segal - "One way of contrasting science and dogma is to say that a scientist accepts a fact as a given and a belief system as tentative, whereas a dogmatist accepts the belief system as given; facts are irrelevant" | ||
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Some that i like - stuck them here as a place to keep them.
Jean Giraudoux - "Only the mediocre are always at their best."
Arthur Conan Doyle - "I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
McCain and Segal - "One way of contrasting science and dogma is to say that a scientist accepts a fact as a given and a belief system as tentative, whereas a dogmatist accepts the belief system as given; facts are irrelevant"
