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That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

There's nothing quite so stultifying as having someone around who has all the answers-and gives them to you.

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

Too darned good a machine can be a menace, not a help.