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Avis Black

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Avis’s Quotes

“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”
― Immanuel Kant

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“The incurious eye misses the obvious, the subtle, the subtext. The incurious eye is glazed in a cataract of ignorance and indifference. The incurious eye is neither blind nor myopic. It is empty.”
― Clifford Thurlow

tags: curiosity, curiosity-quotes

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“Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.”
― Ed Koch

tags: rewriting-history

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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”
― Alvin Toffler

tags: futuristic

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“So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.”
― Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War

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