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  • First, you know, a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.

    -William James
      Pragmatism, lecture 6.

  • Let it not be said of this Atlantic generation that we left ideals and visions to the past, nor purpose and determination to our adversaries.We have come too far, we have sacrificed too much to disdain the future now.

    -John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
      Speech to the West German Parliament, Frankfurt, 25  Jun.

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