"Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them."

Source : Isaac Watts (1806). “Logic, Or The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth: With a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences”, p.174

Isaac Watts

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“If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.”
“I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment.”
“Talking nice about sun and wind and green jobs is just greenwash.”
“I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.”
“Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.”

Source : Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne
“That's because of everything the public interest and the media interest is focused on: What did Donald Trump know and when did he know it? Whether there was cooperation with the Russians. I don't mean to say that's a distraction or we shouldn't follow it up. But the underlying story of the Russians trying to subvert our democracy, both through propaganda, planted stories, manipulation of social media and through direct efforts to infiltrate our state election system, is really an enormously significant event. And it's not over.”

Source : "This Voice of Reason Rises From the Swamp". Interview With Albert R. Hunt, www.bloomberg.com. June 18, 2017.
“I feel like with me being a big part of any offense, then the numbers are going to come.”

Source : Terrell Owens, Jason Rosenhaus (2006). “T.O.”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
“You cant act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.”

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