"There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth."

-- John Milton

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“War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.”
“I like Jodie Foster and then Meryl Streep. They're just, like, the greatest ever.”
“Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.”

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.2, Harvard University Press
“Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.”
“I remember going to church about four times a week. I liked it a lot.”
“In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.”

Source : George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”
“Telling Phil Hellmuth a bad beat story, is like telling Joan Rivers a Botox Story”
“Somebody somewhere is waiting on you to become what you were destined to be. Keep growing forward!”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 13, 2017

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