"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Inspirational Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Science Quotes

“They think I'm being serious when actually I'm a very big clown. But you have to know me to see that. I'm constantly cracking up and cracking everybody else around me up.”
“I am too strong to break so easily, and I become better, sharper, every time I touch him.”
“There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions”
“... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This does not mean just to amuse him and let him do what he likes. But it does mean that we have to adjust our minds to doing a work of collaboration with nature, to being obedient to one of her laws, the law which decrees that development comes from environmental experience.”
“You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way.”
“To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.”
“To criticize one's country is to do it a service.... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism-a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation.”
“Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.”

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