Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.

Herbert M. Shelton
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  1. It is always a much easier task to educate uneducated people than to re-educate the mis-educated.

  2. General Motors, General Mills, General Foods, general ignorance, general apathy, and general cussedness elect presidents and Congressmen and maintain them in power.

  3. Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

  4. You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid–she only asks that you cease interfering.

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