"Any method by which you get to see things that you haven't seen before hones your practiced ability to make connections."

-- Stephen Metcalf

#Connections Quotes #Method Quotes #Ability Quotes

“My opinion of Christian Zionists? They're scum. But don't tell them that. We need all the useful idiots we can get right now.”
“America, I like the spirit. Because American people here believe in something. I like that spirit.”
“Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr
“At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.”
“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.”
“I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.”

Source : "Historian David Irving Gets Three Years in Holocaust Denial Case", www.foxnews.com. February 20, 2006.
“There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.”

Source : Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.4, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Those that are huntedKnow this as their life,Their reward: to walkUnder such trees in full knowledgeOf what is in glory above them,And to feel no fear.”

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