Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions. - Booth Tarkington

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Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

Booth Tarkington

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

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One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.

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Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

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Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.

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Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

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Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

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Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

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This is the most important joke I've ever heard. Niels Bohr, the founder of Quantum Physics, had a friend to dinner. As the friend left, he noticed a horseshoe nailed above Bohr's front door. He said to Bohr, accusingly, "Niels, you're a great scientist. You can't believe in superstitions. " Bohr answered, "I don't, but apparently it works anyway. "As with confirmation bias, we tend to lean toward superstitions that benefit us.

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Paulo Coelho

If you're asking me if I like your company, the answer is yes. If, on the other hand, you're asking me if I could live without you, the answer is also yes.

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Catharine MacKinnon

Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.

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Bernie Sanders

Israel has an absolute right to exist - not only to exist - but to exist in a way that they're not under threat of terrorism.

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