QUOTE A DAY - December 8, 2015

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*---- Quote For The Day ----*
The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its' determination to continue to be a world power.
--Henry Kissinger, post-Vietnam blues, as quoted in The Washington Post, April 1975

[The] social chain does not rest on a few; nothing of what happens in it is a matter of luck, nor the product of fate, but the intelligent work of the citizens. Nobody in it is looking from the window of the sacrifice and the drain of a few. Alive, I am a partisan. That is why I hate the ones that don't take sides, I hate the indifferent.
--Antonio Gramsci, Philosopher

A good example is the best sermon.
--Benjamin Franklin


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
A real, authentic life is when what you fear and what you like are different intensities of the same thing.
--Nassim Taleb

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
--Henry David Thoreau, from "Walden"

Antifragile is not always fun.
--Amy Coley


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

ANSWER: Karl Popper - 'The Poverty of Historicism'

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