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The trouble with our age is that it is all signposts and no destination.
Author: The War Cry
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Noise, crowding, pollution, and the sheer rush of our complex, modern society are rapidly becoming as oppressive to many individuals as the worst kind of political dictatorship.
Author: Thomas F. Eagleton
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Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on.
Author: Thurman Arnold
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What’s wrong with this world is, it’s not finished yet. It is not competed to the point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, ‘It is finished. We made it and it works.’
Author: William Faulkner, address, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 8 June 1952
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…anyone who writes about Darwin’s theory of evolution in the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently.
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…each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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…everything is too important ever to be entrusted to professional experts, because every organization of such professionals and every established social organization becomes a vestedinterest institution more concerned with its efforts to maintain itself or advance its own interests than to achieve the purpose that society expects it to achieve.
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…far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.
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…in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.
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…in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.
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…it is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.
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…mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to develop the female phenotype; the mammalian male is essentially a female that has been exposed to androgenic steroid hormones.
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…man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.
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…most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.
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…one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears selfevident.
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…the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, scientific development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its mentality the projection of its conflicts, prejudice and specific ways of doublethink onto the graceful sky.
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…the selfassertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon’s wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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[Man] is a social animal. [Lat., Sociale animal est.]
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[They say] We do not know how this is, but we know that God can do it. You poor fools! God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.
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