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If everything did fit perfectly; if there were no errors; then there would be no room for change, either. Or serendipity. No one would see a new or novel solution. No one would see anything except what they already knew. We must live in
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“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
― Collected Works
― Collected Works
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― What's Wrong with the World
― What's Wrong with the World
“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
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“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
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“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
― Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series
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