#gm

We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

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The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#between #dogmatism #limits #logic #move

Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#errors #every #every day #failure #few

Well, it's a humor strip, so my first responsibility has always been to entertain the reader... But if, in addition, I can help move readers to thought and judgment about issues that concern me, so much the better. ↗

— Garry Trudeau

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Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. ↗

— George Steiner

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But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#judgment #neither #never #older #tired

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils. ↗

— George Mercer Dawson

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Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequality, only fragments, never conflict. ↗

— Elizabeth Wilson

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