"There was a survey done a few years ago that affected me greatly. it was discovered that intelligent people either estimate their intelligence accurately or slightly underestimate themselves, but stupid people overestimate their intelligence and by huge margins. (And these were things like straight up math tests, not controversial IQ tests.)"

-- Harvey Pekar

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“A fundie claimed "God invented science". All of science is tentative and approximate, also sometimes mistaken. Is that the best God can do?”
“I recorded the song 'Believers' because I feel the song has a strong and much needed message. We all need encouragement and something to believe in.”
“I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.”
“Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.”
“I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.”

Source : Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.127, Chelsea Green Publishing
“Hippies believe the world could be a better place. Beatniks believe things arenâ€™t going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time.”
“I don't know, I like the word sassy.”
“It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry.”

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