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As Gove knows.... 'Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more… — George Orwell
It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized,… — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is the narrow, hidden tracks that lead back to our lost homeland, what contains the solution to the last mysteries is not the ugly… — Gustave Meyrink
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists object to Catastrophe Theory that it… — Rene Thom
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation… — Spencer W. Kimball
Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one. — Alexander McCall Smith
Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of… — Emma Goldman
This gospel we have received is one of sacrifice, service and self-abnegation from beginning to end. That is what constitutes the straight and narrow way… — George F. Richards
If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased… — L. David Mech
Intellect is merely a narrow and highly specific kind of thing that we DO, but our immediacy relates us to what we naturally and essentially… — Kenny Smith
When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one… — Neal A. Maxwell
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to… — Walter Scott
I find it quite useful to think of a free-market economy - or partly free market economy - as sort of the equivalent of an… — Charlie Munger
The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool. — Charles Spurgeon
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles of misconceptions as… — Walter Weyl
Was awakened in the night to a strain of music dying away, - passing travellers singing. My being was so expanded and infinitely and divinely… — Henry David Thoreau
Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely… — Jonathan Kozol
The combination of professionalism and technology may also result in narrow-minded specialization more suited to a debating society than to an organization whose task it… — Martin Van Creveld
My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think… — Toby Stephens
I feel genuinely sorry for those who are so blinded by narrow partisanship that they cannot appreciate Limbaugh's energy, intelligence and satiric skill. They live… — Camille Paglia
Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and… — Robert L. Bartley
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes. — Victoria Woodhull
It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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