“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. [...] Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.”
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“Self-respect and kindness to others: that's it. That's how we restore freedom to the galaxy …”
― How Not To Be a Boy
― How Not To Be a Boy
“I guess one person CAN make a difference, but most of the time they probably shouldn't.”
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“Nothing moved [Emily Bronte] more than any insinuation that the faithfulness and clemency, the long-suffering and loving-kindness which are esteemed virtues in the daughters of Eve, become foibles in the sons of Adam.”
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“your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
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