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“It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.”

Men Important Order Views Liberty Fire Greater Media Objects Masters Terrible Presses Excellent Servant Misfortunes Engines License Accord Formidable

Author:James F. Cooper

“[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.”

Men Path Cutting Tools Difficulty Mathematics Math Bars Opening Pursue Mathematical Statistics Formidable Statistician Thickets

Author:Francis Galton

“The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn.”

Men Needs Humans Has Beens Self Culture Clear Conditions Tasks Experience Method Rate Faster Paradox Pace Human Condition Elsewhere Never Quit Homo Sapiens Formidable Culture Change

Author:Jules Henry

“I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them.”

Thinking Men Needs Heart Turns Fear Water Approach Weak Brave Knees Sweat Incapable Intimidating Intimidation Formidable Monarchs Paralysis Bodyguard Giddy

Author:Shaka

“If there had been any formidable body of cannibals in the country, Harry Truman would have promised to provide them with free missionaries fattened at the taxpayer's expense.”

Ifs Country Body Politics Expenses Taxpayers Formidable Cannibal Truman Harry Truman

Author:H. L. Mencken

“No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”

Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales

“The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.”

People Men Writing Deals Weapons Pens Formidable

Author:George D. Prentice

“Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.”

Names Answers Principles Democracy Rights Demand Destruction Suicide Deny Commit Formidable

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.”

Men Kind Beast Prey Formidable

Book:Essays in Religion and Morality

Source: Essays in Religion and Morality

“Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that they have no will.”

Seems Challenges Effort Barriers Formidable

Author:Robert Breault

“It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion.”

Form Life Is Names Easy Walks Talking Opinion Dare Stupidity Noses March Disguise Simplest Formidable Walks Of Life Popular Opinion Incomprehension

Book:The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995

Source: The Merry Heart: Selections 1980-1995

“The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrigated by a hundred rills and occasionally degenerating into a swamp. I do not wonder that the poets despise it, though they sometimes find themselves in it by accident. And I am not surprised at the annoyance of the historians when by accident it finds itself among them.”

Writing Sometimes Literature Wonder Novel Poet Mountain Mass Hundred Areas Accidents Climbs Historian Despise Formidable Swamps Annoyance

Author:E. M. Forster

“As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.”

Way Children Use Sound Voice Emotional Lessons Singing Scream Opera Compulsion Formidable Opera Singing

Author:Zola Jesus