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A nation that silences or intimidates original minds is left only with unoriginal minds and cannot hope to hold its own in the competition of peace or of war.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
“Free Enterprise in Ideas,”
Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent (1954)
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Originally published in the
Saturday Review (1952), based on a speech to the Advertising Council's American Round Table, New York City (1951).
Added on 2-Feb-22 | Last updated 22-Jun-22
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Topics: competition, deviation, heterodoxy, imagination, originality
More quotes by Commager, Henry Steele Normal is the average of deviance.
Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944) American author, playwright
Venus Envy, ch. 21 (1993)
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Added on 23-Oct-17 | Last updated 23-Oct-17
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Topics: average, deviance, deviation, meme, normalcy, normality, outliers, perversity
More quotes by Brown, Rita Mae We haven’t got a plan, so nothing can go wrong!
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (1918-2002) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer, actor
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Variants:
- "We don't have a plan, so nothing can go wrong!"
- "We haven't any plan, so nothing can go wrong!"
Added on 16-Jul-15 | Last updated 16-Jul-15
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Topics: consequences, deviation, expectations, fail, failure, incorrect, plan
More quotes by Milligan, Spike The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
Aristotle (384-322 BC) Greek philosopher
On the Heavens [De Caelo, Περὶ οὐρανοῦ], Book 1, ch. 5 (1.5) / 271b.9-10 (350 BC) [tr. Stock (1922)]
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Alternate translation:
A small deviation from the truth at the beginning multiplies itself ten thousand-fold.
[tr. Hankinson (2004)]
Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 28-Jun-22
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Topics: complication, compounding, deviation, error, flaw, imprecision, truth
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