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"The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them."	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
"People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts."	Robert Keith Leavitt
"All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable."	Fran Lebowitz
"What I want to fix your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods? The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses? -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men."	Clive Staples Lewis
"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."	Daniel Day Lewis
"Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor."	Lazarus Long
"The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference."	Adure Lord
"It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence."	James Russel Lowell
"'State intelligence,' like 'military intelligence' and 'woman friend,' is a contradiction in terms."	Niall MacDermot
"Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists."	Norman Mailer
"Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence."	Jacques Maritain
"I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child; they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind."	Sybil Marshall
"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms."	Julius Henry Marx
"A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind."	Eric Mascall
"Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none."	Giuseppe Mazzini
"Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none."	Joseph Mazzini
"Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art."	Charles McCabe
"There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you."	Millicent Carey McIntosh
"I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts."	Bethania McKenstry
"Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say."	Lord Melbourne
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Alvin Barkley	Al Kersha	Amanda Cross
Anne Frank	Antonio Gramsci	Arnold H. Glasgow
Arthur C(harles) Clarke	Ashley Montagu	Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara Kingsolver	Baslo	Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe
Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli	Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle	Bethania McKenstry
Betty Naomi Friedan	Bhagavad Gita	Bill Bulko
Black Elk	Buonarroti Michelangelo	Carl Gustav Jung
Charles Galloway	Charles McCabe	Charles Robert Darwin
Chinua Achebe	Clarence Day	Clifton Paul Fadiman
Clive Staples Lewis	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold	Daniel Day Lewis
Dave Barry	David Fasold	David P(ierpont) Gardner
Dean Koontz	Dee W. Hock	Denis Diderot
Dominique Bouhours	Don Herold	Douglas Noel Adams
Dr.	Dr. Joyce	Dr. Karl Augustus Menninger
Dr. Samuel Johnson	Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
Edgar Watson Howe	Edward Albee	Edward de Bono
Erica Mann Jong	Erich Fromm	Eric Mascall
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eugene V. Debs	Eugenio Montale
Euripides	E. M. Cioran	Felix Cohen
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Flower A. Newhouse	Fran Lebowitz
Frank Kingdon	Friedrich August von Hayek	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
F(rancis) Scott	Galileo Galilei	George Eliot
Gerald	Gerald W. Grummet	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Giuseppe Mazzini	G. H. Hardy	Hal Borland
Harry Emerson Fosdick	Heinrich Heine	Henrik Ibsen
Henry Ford	Henry Brooks Adams	Henry Graham Greene
Henry Louis Mencken	Herbert Butterfield	Herbert Clark Hoover
Hermes	Hoshang N. Akhtar	Irish Blessing
Isadora Duncan	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Maritain
Jacques Martin Barzun	James Branch Cabell	James Dent
James Russel Lowell	James Truslow Adams	Joe Moore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Johann Kepler	John Dewey
John Keats	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.	John Fellows Akers
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Junor	John L. Casteel
John Quincy Adams	Joseph Mazzini	Josiah Gilbert Holland
Juliene Berk	Julius Henry Marx	Kahlil Gibran
Katherine Graham	Kevin R. Hutson	Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Lao-Tzu	Lavina Goodell	Lazarus Long
Leonardo da Vinci	Lord Billingsley	Lord Melbourne
Lucille Ball	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marsha Evans
Martin H. Fischer	Mary McLeod Bethune	Max Born
Maya Angelou	Michael Korda	Miles Kindera
Millicent Carey McIntosh	Missy Good	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Monica Baldwin	Mort Crim	Moshe Arens
Newt Gingrich	Niall MacDermot	Nikki Giovanni
Norman Cousins	Norman Mailer	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Nader	Raymond Claud Ferdinan Aron	Rita Mae Brown
Robert	Robertson Davies	Robert Anson Heinlein
Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Green Ingersoll	Robert Hewison
Robert Keith Leavitt	Roger	Roger John
Ruth Gordon	Saint Augustine	Saul Bellow
Scott Adams	Shakti Gawain	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Sigmund Freud	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir William Alton Jones	Sir William Henry Bragg	Sri da Avabhas
Srully D. Blotnick	Stan Getz	Stephen Crane
Stephen William Hawking	Sybil Marshall	Sydney J. Harris
S(amuel) I(chiye) Hayakawa	Thomas Carlyle	Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Arnold Bennett	Thomas Henry Huxley	Truman Capote
T. S. Eliot	Uta Hagan	Victor Hugo
Václav Havel	Warren G. Bennis	Willa Sibert Cather
William James	William Bolitho	William Ellery Channing
William Faulkner	William Ralph Inge	William Seward Burroughs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Woody Allen	(Alfred) "Alistair" Cooke
(Carl) Frederick Buechner	(Enoch) Arnold Bennett	(George) Norman Douglas
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