"Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down."

-- George Eliot

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“You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.”
“Schoolteachers are not fully appreciated by parents until it rains all day Saturday.”
“The most accessible field in science, from the point of view of language, is astrophysics. What do you call spots on the sun? Sunspots. Regions of space you fall into and you donâ€™t come out of? Black holes. Big red stars? Red giants. So I take my fellow scientists to task. Heâ€™ll use his word, and if I understand it, Iâ€™ll say, â€œOh, does that mean da-da-da-de-da?”
“In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .”
“Immigration is an organized replacement of our population. This threatens our very survival. We don't have the means to integrate those who are already here. The result is endless cultural conflict.”
“Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.”
“There's no attempt to manipulate the audience. We made our choice at the start.”
“The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.”

Source : "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew P. Tobias, 1982.

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