Dark Ages Quotes - Page 12

• Holland gets by on a total of four food additives; we have over 1,400.

  Fred Richmond

  Dark, Age, Four

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• ...Other countries are way ahead of ours in nutrition.

  Fred Richmond

  Country, Dark, Age

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• ...Prevent postal investigators from aggressively interfering with, or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has been deemed not to adhere to the prevailing body of scientific opinion - whatever they have determined that to be.

  Vin Weber

  Dark, Age, Body

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• After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.

  Vin Weber

  Dark, Age, Example

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• In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful research projects.

  Rene Dubos

  Meaningful, Running, Dark

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• ...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.

  William James

  Believe, Dark, Opportunity

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• ...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because scientists become attached to the old perspective earlier in their careers.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Dark, Careers, Perspective

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• Whatever the rationale, the suppression of unorthodox cancer therapies and the sustained persecution of their proponents by government and colleagues runs counter to freedom of thought, much less freedom of choice.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Running, Cancer, Dark

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• ...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dark, Age, Genius

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• We live in a society that penalizes highly creative individuals for their non-conformist autonomy. This makes the teaching of problem solving in design both discouraging and difficult. A...student (has) massive blocks against new ways of thinking, engendered by some 16 years of mis-education.

  Victor Papanek

  Block, Teaching, Dark

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• He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.

  Luigi Cornaro

  Dark, Age, Littles

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• Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Moving, Fall

  Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60

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• Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War II, the Hundred Years' War, the Black Death, and the fall of the Roman Empire. They even survived the Dark Ages, when almost no one could read and each book had to be copied by hand. They aren't going to be killed off by the Internet.

  Vicki Myron

  War, Book, Fall

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• Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.

  Mahmud Tarzi

  Dark, Europe, Islam

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• Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.

  Gene Logsdon

  Dark, Common Purpose, Skills

  Gene Logsdon (2000). “Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Until America, door to door, takes every handgun, this is what you're gonna have. It's pathetic. It really is pathetic. It's sad. We're living in the Dark Ages over there.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Dark, Doors, America

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.

  Dion Fortune

  Christian, School, Dark

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• If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Home, Ignorance, Dark

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VI, (21), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

  Carl Sagan

  Dark, Science, Perfect

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.

  Jane Jacobs

  Dark, Past, Age

  Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.3, Vintage

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• We're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn’t the fact that they were primitive — the Bronze Age was primitive, too. What made the Dark Ages dark was the fact that so much knowledge had been lost, that so much known to the Greeks and Romans had been forgotten by the barbarian kingdoms that followed.

  Paul Krugman

  Dark, Greek, Age

  "A Dark Age of macroeconomics (wonkish)" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. January 27, 2009.

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• ...the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Dark, Self, Age

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.5, David R. Godine Publisher

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• We have in fact entered upon the final phase..., the darkest period of this dark age, the state of dissolution from which there is to be no emerging except through a cataclysm, since it is no longer a mere revival which is required, but a complete renovation.

  Rene Guenon

  Dark, Growth, Age

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• The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost?

  Jane Jacobs

  Dark, People, Age

  "Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter One, The Hazard, p. 4, 2004.

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• The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He'd never forget this night, the detective knew, no matter what else happened for the rest of his life. They were all getting scars on their souls, the sort of scars people got in the Dark Ages, when they believed in devils and black magic. (Speak To Me Of Death)

  Cornell Woolrich

  Girl, Uncles, Fear

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