quotes about Crank
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The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
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(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.
-- Gregory Benford -
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
-- Henri Bergson -
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Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.
-- John Milton -
And Seinfeld is so quick: we crank out one show a week, and the hours are very reasonable
-- Julia Louis-Dreyfus -
I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
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If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
-- William Dean HowellsSource : William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.4038, Delphi Classics
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There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan at the turn of the century. The body politic has a way of expelling these invaders.
-- Joseph RagoSource : "And then there were 16". "The Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. July 25, 2015.
