It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.
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People are the common denominator of progress. So ... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain whenpeople are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the otherfamiliar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize ... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments thatstand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.
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