"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them" -Eric Hoffer
"”In my 44 years as a professor, I’ve noticed a jarring mismatch between how we academics like to think of ourselves (courageous truth seekers) and how we often behave (status-grubbing cowards)" -Philip E. Tetlock
"As the old lawyer's line says, if the facts are on your side, pound the facts; if the law is on your side, pound the law; if neither are on your side, pound the table. I'd add: and demand “civility.” " -Paul Krugman
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Society is always prone to accept a person offhand for what he pretends to be, so that a crackpot posing as a genius always has a certain chance to be believed. In modern society, with its characteristic lack of discerning judgement, this tendency is strengthened, so that someone who not only holds opinions but also presents them in a tone of unshakable conviction will not so easily forfeit his prestige, no matter how many times he has been demonstrably wrong" -Hannah Arendt
”A hundred nights await you,/ and a hundred nights have died./You hover in between—a voiceless doll” -Vasyl Stus
"Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. " -Robert Solow
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