"It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it."

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Source : E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.151, Simon and Schuster

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#Fear Quotes #Sticks Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.”
“I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.”
“I understand that one of the purposes of bipartisanship is to cram something difficult and necessary down the American people's gullets for which neither party has the fortitude to assume full responsibility. It's a way of turning a possible gangplank into a teeter-totter.”
“It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.”
“By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.”
“It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.”
“Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.”
“There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.”

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