Quotes:05/30/14 ''It is not because things are difficult...''

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It is not your opinion that will make or break you, but how you express your opinion.--Nassim Taleb
Simplicity is the key to brilliance.-- Bruce Lee
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.--Seneca

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The belief in the possibility of a rule of law, of equal justice, of fundamental rights and a free society can easily survive the recognition that judges are not omniscient and may make mistakes about facts... But the belief in the possibility of a rule of law, of justice, and of freedom, can hardly survive the acceptance of an epistemology which teaches that there are no objective facts. See at the bottom for the answer

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At the end of the game, the king and the pawn all go back in the same box.--Italian Proverb [From Tom Cunniff]
Science is no inexorable march to truth, mediated by the collection of objective information and the destruction of ancient superstition. Scientists, as ordinary human beings, unconsciously reflect in their theories the social and political constraints of their times.--Stephen Jay Gould
If physical determinism is true, then that is the end of all discussion or argument; everything is finished. There is no philosophy. All human persons are caught up in this inexorable web of circumstances and cannot break out of it. Everything that we think we are doing is an illusion and that is that. Will anybody live up to this situation?--John C. Eccles in 'The Self and Its Brain', by himself and Karl Popper.

MYSTERY QUOTE AND ANSWER - DID YOU GUESS CORRECTLY?

The belief in the possibility of a rule of law, of equal justice, of fundamental rights and a free society can easily survive the recognition that judges are not omniscient and may make mistakes about facts... But the belief in the possibility of a rule of law, of justice, and of freedom, can hardly survive the acceptance of an epistemology which teaches that there are no objective facts.
ANSWER: Karl Popper