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“There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!”

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It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

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Don't do anything that someone else can do.

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The present is the past biting into the future.

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The world belongs to the articulate.

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Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

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Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of…

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I believe that each young person is different from any other who has ever lived, as different as his fingerprints: that he could bring…

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There is no such thing as group originality, group creativity or group perspicacity.

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A significant invention must be startling, unexpected. It must come to a world that is not prepared for it.

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I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

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A premature attempt to explain something that thrills you will destroy your perceptivity rather than increase it, because your tendency will be to explain…

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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the…

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The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make "All Along…

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If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I…

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Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I…

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In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very…

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I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there…

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The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of…

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We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of…

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To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you exist in…

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“The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first place seemed…

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My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of…

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I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a…

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