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“There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.”
― Bertrand Russell, Human Society in Ethics and Politics

“Question the answers, I repeated every class. Reevaluate your conclusions when the evidence changes.”
― Craig M. Mullaney, The Unforgiving Minute: A Soldier's Education

“We like to think we're pretty special, and, OK, in some respects maybe we are. And we like to think that we design for ourselves. And we do, we really do. But in the important ways we are really very much like a lot of other people. And if you are going to design for yourself, then you have to make sure you design deeply for yourself, because otherwise you are just designing for your eccentricities and that can never be satisfying to anyone else.”
― Charles Eames

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress