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Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them. ↗

— Norman Lamm

#aristotle #authority #bother #conventional #correct

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#biased #difficult #even #interest #moderation

Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained. ↗

— James Loeb

#copyright #could #efforts #excellence #existence

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#barriers #business #business model #clones #competitors

I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#actually #break #degree #dimensions #during

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected. ↗

— John McKinley

#business model #doing #essential #essential thing #expected

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#dancers #give #modern #our #portent

One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

#bad #beyond #comes #goes #good

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#am #feebleness #feeling #horrified #i

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that. ↗

— Patricia Hewitt

#economy #got #having #left #modern