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Accuracy is the quality of being precise, true, and exact. Without accuracy, even good intentions can cause harm. As humans, our perceptions are prone to being distorted by self serving biases and a pervasive tendency to ignore contradictory information. Thus, the scientific method has been called, "What we know about how not to fool ourselves." In our interactions with others, it is tempting to overstate what we wish to be true, or to understate what we wish was not so.


We come close to accuracy only by humble truth seeking--by learning to be skeptical of our own cherished notions. Accuracy requires constant awareness and effort to speak with precision.

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Time is the greatest thief in life.

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Things are going a pair ! Things are going opposite ! All kind of everything !

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The primal and the best education are started from family.

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The dolt is not a hindrance. The greatest hindrance in life is dolt and sloth.

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Nothing is difficult when one can overcome with it !!!

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No matter how far he can go in his entire life. No matter how much he can achieve in his entire life. No matter how much burdens he can take in his entire life. FAMILY - - - IS HIS LAST REFUGE.

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Need to be smart by existing. Need to be wise by living.

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Life is never been easy. Otherwise, you will never treasure what you have.

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Education may not make a change of your life. It makes you ponder over at least.

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Children are our futures and hopes.

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A divinely brilliant life has no regret when DEATH comes along. And you say," Yes, I'm well prepared ! "

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It takes hundred of years sitting together in the same boat. It takes thousand of years sharing the same bed with. It calls : the predestined affinity.

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To eat meat is just a habit after we were born. In fact, we are not born to eat meat.

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Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.

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Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?

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What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.

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creating health
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunk man is happier than a sober one.

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On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

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Some people cannot afford to fall ill and die: they have great fear.

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"Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions.

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I recognize people not by their face but by their gait: their gait never changes.

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Every cause produces more than one effect. Herbert Spencer

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I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are just details.

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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

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There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

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A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

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A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

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I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.

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All that is gold does not glitter.

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Many that live deserve death, And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

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Lord of the rings
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

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Wordsmith
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric
"A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on April 28, 2011
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“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don’t want to hear.”

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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth--that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?

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Let us not seek the Republican answer nor the Democratic answer but the right answer

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Balanced Politics
John F. Kennedy
http://balancedpolitics.org/index.htm
Viewed on January 25, 2011
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It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and we do not want to be the last.

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Francois De La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)
"A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on January 10, 2011
Contribution #4710


What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do.

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John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)
"A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on December 31, 2010
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

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Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)
"A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on December 30, 2010
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

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Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
"A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on December 30, 2010
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Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

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William Proxmire, US senator, reformer (1915-2005)
"A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on December 16, 2010
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You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.

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P.J. O'Rourke, American political satirist, journalist, writer, and author
"A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on December 15, 2010
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

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John Maynard Keynes, British economist
http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html
Viewed on December 14, 2010
Contribution #4624


When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.

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Jane Welsh Carlyle, letter writer (1801-1866)
"A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on December 10, 2010
Contribution #4619


It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
"A.Word.A.Day"
http://wordsmith.org/
Viewed on December 6, 2010
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Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.

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Margaret Millar, novelist (1915-1994)
"A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on December 2, 2010
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.

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Sydney J. Harris, journalist (1917-1986)
"A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on November 30, 2010
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In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

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The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

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William Faulkner
Viewed on November 16, 2010
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A lie travels faster than truth and multiplies quickly, you protect the first lie with another one and so on.Time comes, the truth will overtake's the lie.When you can't cover it anymore.Then the truth will sits in.

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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

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Think Exist
Dr. Suess
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/sometimes_the_questions_are_complicated_and_the/340210.html
Viewed on September 26, 2010
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The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

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The Quotations Page
Mark Twain
"Quotes of the Day"
http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html
Viewed on September 12, 2010
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In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

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John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)
"A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on September 2, 2010
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Oh, threats of hell and hopes of paradise! / One thing at least is certain -- this life flies; / One thing is certain, and the rest is lies; / The flower that once has blown forever dies.

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-Omar Khayyam, poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and physician (1048-1131)
"A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on August 11, 2010
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The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

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The Quotations Page
H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880 - 1956)
http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html
Viewed on August 9, 2010
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My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.

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There is no poison on earth more potent, nor half so deadly, as a partial truth mixed with passion.

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When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

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Lewis H. Lapham, editor and writer (1935- )
"A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on June 29, 2010
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

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Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

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It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to get premision

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It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to get premision

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To profess to be doing God's will is a form of megalomania.

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Joseph Prescott, aphorist (1913-2001)
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Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

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Life's Lesson When people are watching your footstep...Let it be.Be grateful and happy.It means,your not alone when you fall.Those people whose watching you should be cautious,it means they're so busy minding your business they forgot their own footstep and didn't realized that in the process they themselves are falling.

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I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty.

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Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)
"A.Word.A.Day"
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Viewed on May 26, 2010
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That's a fine line that's a big deal.

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Personal Communication
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Our choicest plans
have fallen through,
our airiest castles
tumbled over,
because of lines
we neatly drew
and later neatly
stumbled over.

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Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
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Viewed on May 19, 2010
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Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a faultless calculator, a superb bookkeeper; we will be held responsible for every bit of our economic folly.

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Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology
by Anne Lonergan & Caroline Richards
Page Page 9
Published by Twenty-Third Publicatins , Mystic, CT , 1987
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It is better for the blind man to see than a seen person who is blind.SOMETIMES...you see better when your eyes closed.

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If common sense were a reliable guide, we wouldn't need science.

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New Scientist
Page 23
Volume: 2697
http://www.newscientist.com/issue/2697
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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren’t always two sides. Sometimes there’s only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.

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The Gotham Skeptic
Barry Leiba
""Faulty Logic: False Dichotomy""
http://www.nycskeptics.org/blog/?p=1073
Viewed on January 15, 2010
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The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

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Modern Mechanics and Inventions. July, 1934
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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

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I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution. — Jonathan Swift (Thoughts on Religion (1786))

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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations - Third Edition
by Oxford University Press
Page 527 - #6
Published by Same as above? , USA , 1980
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We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort us for reasons of ideology, politics, religion, or personal taste.

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Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

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A conclusion is simply where you stopped thinking.

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If the village elders don't provide the scripts (for youth success), the village idiots will.

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President, Morehouse College (CNN/Essence - Reclaiming the Dream) July 31, 2009
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Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools.

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Starbucks - The Way I See It - #1
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Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly (if belatedly) that conservatives' "disdain for liberal intellectuals" had slipped into "disdain for the educated class as a whole," and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole. There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.

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Mark Lilla
"The Perils of 'Populist Chic'"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122610558004810243.html
Viewed on November 9, 2008
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I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face.

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The Audacity of Hope
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Thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

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The Prophet
Page 60
Published by Alfred A. Knopf , New York , 1992
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~pvk/literature/gibran/gibran20.html
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Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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Nelson Mandela
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

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Charles Simmons
Viewed on April 7, 2008
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

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Tryon Edwards
Viewed on April 7, 2008
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