I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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John Cage
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
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B.W. Powe
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of...
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John F. Kennedy
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas — complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
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George F. Kennan
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.
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Jonah Lehrer
More Quotes By Murray Kempton
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time,...
When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew.
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those...
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.
