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We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably not desirable. After…

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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…

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The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it. — Barry Commoner
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. — Polybius
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural… — Gaylord Nelson
I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the administration of… — Florence Nightingale
The correct understanding of Karate and its proper use is Karate-do. One who truly trains in this do [way] and actually understands… — Gichin Funakoshi
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course,… — Amitav Ghosh
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use… — Samuel Johnson
The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on… — Hans Kmoch
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
So, one of the things I was doing with the aliens in The Quiet Invasion was creating that advanced society which had… — Sarah Zettel
The person who has the motivational gift of giving has a tremendous opportunity to be a blessing to others in the body… — Charles Stanley
How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three… — Van Day Truex

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