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"Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny."	Eric Hoffer
"It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man."	Herbert Clark Hoover
"Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can."	Richard Hughes
"It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's: remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and remedial 'rithmetic."	Robert Maynard Hutchins
"Words form the thread on which we string our experiences."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will rea"	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"The vast majority of human beings dislike and even dread all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have always been devided as fools and madmen."	Aldous Leonard Huxley
"To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense."	John Irving
"America is not like a blanket -- one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt -- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."	Henry M. Jackson
"I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me-toasted and buttered on both sides."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"America is not like a blanket-one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us."	Anna James
"Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airborne particle in its tissue."	Henry James
"Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can."	William James
"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique."	William James
"It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read."	Thomas Jefferson
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."	Dr. Samuel Johnson
"We Americans know-although others appear to forget-the risk of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider war." (On ordering retaliatory action against North Vietnam)"	Lyndon Baines Johnson
"You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read."	Charles Jones
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