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The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

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The great enemy of knowledge is not error, but inertness. All that we want is discussion; and then we are sure to do well, no matter what our blunders may be. One error conflicts with another, each destroys its opponent, and truth is evolved.

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He who knows most believes the least.

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Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

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Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

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First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

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Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.

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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.

Adam Johnson Novelist

How to achieve the moral breakdown of the enemy before the war has started - that is the problem that interests me. Whoever has experienced war at the front will want to refrain from all avoidable bloodshed.

Adolf Hitler Former Chancellor Of Germany

Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see the profits of our trade snatched from us, to enrich our enemies and persecutors. That unequalled spirit of enterprise . . . an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would be stifled and lost; and poverty and disgrace would overspread a country, which, with wisdom, might make herself the admiration and envy of the world.

Alexander Hamilton Founding Father Of The United States

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

Ambrose Bierce Journalist

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

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