"None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right."

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Source : William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White (1972). “The Elements of Style”

William Strunk, Jr.

“My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.”
“When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”
“I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.”
“Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”
“Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three jokes for stand-up. Later, I've finally allowed myself to relax quite a bit, to think I can do it because I've done it in the past. The pressure to come up with the material is the same but the anxiety about whether I can do it is gone.”
“I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don't give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.”

Source : "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 19, 1990.
“Every step that I've taken was a learning lesson. Even to not think you're so big and so bad you can't fall.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“"On what motivated Colorado voters: "Let's face it, the War on Drugs was a disaster. It may be well intentioned ... but it sent millions of kids to prison, gave them felonies often times when they had no violent crimes ... I was against this, but I can see why so many people supported it."”

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