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last updated: November 28, 2023

It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.
-- Harriet Martineau

Source : Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.147

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The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge.
-- Thomas Piketty

Source : Thomas Piketty (2014). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.71, Harvard University Press

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Political liberty is nothing else but the diffusion of power.
-- Lord Hailsham

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“My mother gave me one piece of advice that stuck with me. She said don't forget where you came from.”

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“I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.”
“In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.”
“We can glut ourselves with how-to-raise children information . . . strive to become more mature and aware but none of this will spare us from the . . . inevitability that some of the time we are going to fail our children. Because there is a big gap between knowing and doing. Because mature, aware people are imperfect too. Or because some current event in our life may so absorb or depress us that when our children need us we cannot come through.”
“I actually enjoy being on my own, because it allows me to do what I do.”
“Life presents us with repeated opportunities to face what we fear, what we need to become conscious of, or what we need to master.”
“But when a manâ€™s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him.”
“I think whenever any guys come along they're intimidated, and they don't really talk that much unless I talk to them.”
“Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.”

Source : Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a Dancer”
“I'm always looking, people are always presenting and I have found that every year of my life there's been great bands. All over the world, all the time. So when someone goes, "Music sucks now!" I'll go, "I don't think so. Not over at my house."”