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The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question.

-Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, biologist, author (1941-2002)

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

-Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."

-H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

-Walt Whitman, poet (1819-1892)

Society is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface; he, however, who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.

-Washington Irving, writer (1783-1859)

"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't."

- Patrick Murray

"If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him."

Ralph Waldo Emerson