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• Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry than it is to mathematics, in that it involves selective breeding.
  The principal difference between the husbandryman and the historian is that the former breeds sheep or cows or such, and the latter breeds (assumed) facts....
• The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really enjoys the bitterness of failure.
  -- Soren Kierkegaard...
• Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one who carries out are different people.
  The former does not behold the sight and does not experience the strong impression on the imagination....
• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
  -- H G Wells (1866-1946), The _Tribune_, London English novelist, historia...
• Familiarity breeds.
• Principal Skinner... Pros: * Uses big words. * Dislikes the boy.
  * [something] Cons: * Possible Homer Sexual....
• The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
  William Blake...
• What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising?
  Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public...
• Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.
  The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence....