The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
— H. L. Mencken
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Pride is the never-failing vice of fools.
— Alexander Pope
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.
— Carl Sagan
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
— George Eliot

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