"Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof."

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“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”

“Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.”

“A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community.”

“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”

“There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs — they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.”

“Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these — it's a state of mind.”

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Social Activism1982

#change

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— Rose Wilder Lane

Literature1886–1968

#freedom

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— Amit Shah

Politics1964

#justice

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— Rose Wilder Lane

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#freedom