"The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'."
-John McCarthy
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"There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them."
-John McCarthy
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"The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement."
-John McCarthy
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"Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information."
-John McCarthy
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"In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated."
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"Of course, Third World leaders love you. By ascribing third world ills to First World sins, you absolve them of blame for their countries' failure to advance."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
-Will Harvey
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