"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."

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Robert Green Ingersoll

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“Live according to the ethics of excellence, and you can always stand proud. Pride - not vanity, but dignity and self-respect - should carry a lot of weight in helping you make decisions. Let pride help you decide.”
“A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others positions, no matter how odious.”
“The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.”
“Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these huge viruses that have wiped out huge populations. So, we're dealing with something that the CDC hasn't seen before, but it comes from a virus. That's something that's based in reality, and then you put the science fiction on that and it's a really interesting combination.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I feel most empires fell when they started to act human, but then look at Russia. They kept a pretty strong hand, and they fell from Afghanistan alone because Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. I guess you just can't sustain it.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2010.
“The way of truth is like a great road. It is not difficult to know it. The evil is only that men will not seek it.”
“Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.”
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.”

Source : Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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