"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."

-- Plato

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“I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.”
“When it comes to fighting you shouldn't be thinking at all. You have to clear your mind and trust yourself completely.”
“In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.”
“If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.”

Source : "Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice - it's within my grasp'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.
“There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.”
“The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.”
“People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.145, Octagon Press Ltd
“My earliest memory is learning to read 'Muffin the Mule' when I was about three.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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