Scott Cornell

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“Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: cowardice, hatred

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“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

tags: arrogance, ignorance, politicians, politics

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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
― Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters

tags: arrogance, judgment, knowledge, omniscience, pomposity, preface-to-brissot-s-address, presumption, ridicule, truth

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