Travis Nichols famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The most fundamental attack on freedom is the attack on critical thinking skills.
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I think I love jokes! The best jokes are equal to the best art, in my mind, and as rare.
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Like great art, something essential dies when great jokes are explained. So what's the key to telling a good joke/creating great art timing.
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Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
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Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.
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The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
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To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and to build a world community which will stand as a lasting monument to the millions of men and women, to such devoted and distinguished world citizens and fighters for peace as the late Dag Hammarskjold, who have given their lives that we may live in happiness and peace...
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...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.
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There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.
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Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
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