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They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge

— Thomas Brackett Reed

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One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils of the world can be cured by legislation.

George W. Stimpson in A Book About American Politics (1952)

Russell, you do not understand the theory of the five minute debate. The object is to convey to the House in the space of five minutes either information or disinformation. You have consumed several periods of five minutes this afternoon without doing either.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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