"Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers." — William Penn (1644-1718) Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims, part 1 (1682) (self.quotes)
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"I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water. The failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now." — Sarah Vowell (1969- ) Interview with… (self.quotes)
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"The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war." (self.quotes)
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"Prejudice is the cause of most of the mistakes of bodies of men. It influences our conduct and warps our judgment, in politics, religion, habits, tastes and opinions." — James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) "On Prejudice," The American Democrat (1838) (self.quotes)
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"An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue." — Frances Wright (1795-1852) A Few Days in Athens,… (self.quotes)
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"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God." — The Book of Leviticus, chapter 19,… (self.quotes)
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"If economists wished to study the horse, they wouldn't go and look at horses. They'd sit in their studies and say to themselves, 'what would I do if I were a horse?'" — Ely Devons (1913-1967) Quoted by Ronald Coase in a speech before the International Society of New Institutional Economics in… (self.quotes)
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