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Theodore Dalrymple has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
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In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
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Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
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There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
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The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
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Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
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Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
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The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence.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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It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature…
— Imre Lakatos
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The various reasons which we have enumerated lead us to believe that the new radio-active substance contains a new element which we…
— Marie Curie
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It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to…
— George Washington
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I am with the South in life or death, in victory or defeat. I believe the North is about to wage a…
— Patrick Cleburne
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The strategic initiatives we propose to undertake as part of our plan over the next few years position us well to lead…
— Azim Premji
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I had always enjoyed the title of Commander-in-Chief until I was informed ... that the only forces that cannot be transferred from…
— John F. Kennedy
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the…
— Nassau William Senior
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What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
— William Shakespeare
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There is nothing for it but for all of us to invent our own ideal libraries of classics. I would say that…
— Italo Calvino
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The various reasons we have just enumerated lead us to believe that the new radioactive substance contains a new element to which…
— Marie Curie
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