It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 1 (1820)
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 260 (1955)
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I think if the English language survives another five hundred years, P.G. Wodehouse might still never be topped.
Here's the dedication page for his short story collection The Heart of a Goof, published in 1926.
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Yes, you can. Achieving your goal is #definitely #possible.
First, you #imagine. Then make a #blueprint.
Next, break everything down into small bits and pieces.
Then start building, beginning with the smallest thing you can handle. Then, the next. Then, the next thing after that...
That's how the #impossible gets done. Step by step.
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