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- Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz
- But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in… — James Madison
- Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied. — Norm MacDonald
- We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill. — H.G. Wells
- I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to… — Tony Blair
- Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied. — Sloane Crosley
- There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the… — James Madison
- Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare
- The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive… — Lynne Truss
- Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against… — Carl Sagan
- The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour… — Arnold Bennett
- Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied… — John Locke