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Paul Johnson has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.
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Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.
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To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.
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The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions,…
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A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.
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This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with…
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Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth
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I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could…
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Courage is the essential element in any great public man or woman.
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When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.
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Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.
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Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.
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When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.
— David Bowie
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Modern medicine is not scientific, it is full of prejudice, illogic and susceptible to advertising. Doctors are not taught to reason, they…
— Abram Hoffer
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May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant
— Leonard Nimoy
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and…
— Alan Lightman
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Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar…
— Peter Lynch
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
— E. O. Wilson
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In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of…
— Paul Johnson
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England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is…
— Wole Soyinka
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The death penalty issue is obviously a divisive one. But whether one is for or against, you can not deny the basic…
— Richard LaGravenese
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