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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. – Robert Frost

 

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. – Daniel Webster

 

Perhaps in time the so,called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

 

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. – James A. Baldwin

 

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition. – Alvin Toffler

 

The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. – A. J. Liebling

 

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai E. Stevenson

 

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. – Russell Baker

 

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. – John W. Gardner

 

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic. – Thomas Szasz