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“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

tags: dunces, genius, stupidity

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“Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

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“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: assumptions, bias, conventional-wisdom, deathers, distortion, emotions, heritage, idolatry-birthers, logic, politics, reason, tea-party

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“What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
― Jonathan Swift, The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces

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