"... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both."

-- Maria Edgeworth

#Fall Quotes #Confusion Quotes #Use Quotes

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
“Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with.”
“You won't find average Americans on the left or on the right. You'll find them at Kmart.”
“The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.”
“So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and more material possessions while ignoring the Bible on caring for the poor? The difference is that one involves a social taboo in the church and the other involves the social norm in the church.”
“I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.”
“I think, a general anxiety, after the end of the Cold War, to find a new basis for affirming American nationhood. And perhaps another, in plainer terms, is the lure of the approaching Abraham Lincoln bicentennial has been made a resurgence in interest in Lincoln.”

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“As far as life is concerned, there is no such thing as "Nature". There are only homes. Home is that environment to which the individual has become adapted; and almost everything is unnatural outside his range of adaptation. Harmonious equilibrium with nature is an abstract concept with a Platonic beauty but lacking the flesh and blood of life. It fails, in particular, to convey the creative emergent quality of human existence.”

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