"The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself."

-- Jacob Bronowski

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“The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.”
“Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation.”
“There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.”
“I'd always been interested in psychology.”
“An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.”
“Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.”

Source : Héctor Tobar (2011). “The Barbarian Nurseries: A Novel”, p.257, Macmillan
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
“All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.”

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