QUOTE A DAY - June 5, 2014

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*---- Quotes For The Week ----*
The truth is hard to bear, but the facts are clear. America's wars have been fought in order to advance Washington's power, the profits of bankers and armaments industries, and the fortunes of US companies.
--Paul Craig Roberts

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
--Paulo Freire, Brazilian Philosopher

A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred; he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness.
--Nelson Mandela


**--- MYSTERY QUOTE ---**
There is only one element of rationality in our attempts to know the world: it is the critical examination of our theories. These theories themselves are guesswork. We do not know, we only guess. If you ask me, 'How do you know?' my reply would be, 'I don't; I only propose a guess. If you are interested in my problem, I shall be most happy if you criticize my guess and if you offer counterproposals, I in turn will try to criticize them.'

See at the bottom for the answer

*---- More Quotes for the Week ----*
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
--Bruce Lee

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
--Neale Donald Walsch


MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

There is only one element of rationality in our attempts to know the world: it is the critical examination of our theories. These theories themselves are guesswork. We do not know, we only guess. If you ask me, 'How do you know?' my reply would be, 'I don't; I only propose a guess. If you are interested in my problem, I shall be most happy if you criticize my guess and if you offer counterproposals, I in turn will try to criticize them.'

ANSWER: Karl Popper, 'Conjectures and Refutations'

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