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A quotation from Auden

Only animals who are below civilization and the angels who are beyond it can be sincere. Human beings are, necessarily, actors who cannot become something before they have first pretended to be it; and they can be divided, not into the hypocritical and the sincere, but into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

W. H. Auden (1907–1973) Anglo-American poet [Wystan Hugh Auden]
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue, Part 5 “The Masque” (1947)


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A quotation from Richard Steele

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Richard Steele (1672–1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1713-04-08), The Guardian, No. 24


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A quotation from Propertius

But the fame my genius has won shall not perish with time: genius claims a glory that knows no death.
 
[At non ingenio quaestium nomen ab aevo
   Excidet: ingenio stat sine morte decus.]

Propertius (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]
Elegies, Book 3, Elegy 2, l. 25ff (3.2.25–26) [tr. Goold (Loeb) (1990)]


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A quotation from Shakespeare

CASSIUS:           You gods, it doth amaze me
   A man of such a feeble temper should
   So get the start of the majestic world
   And bear the palm alone.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English dramatist and poet
Julius Caesar, Act 1, sc. 2, l. 135ff (1.2.135–138) (1599)


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Všichni vědci se mýlí - jen “můj vědec” má pravdu!🧠 aneb jak se vyznat v záplavě expertů


V ideálním světě bychom měli naslouchat vědcům a odborníkům, kteří pracují podle vědeckých metod, ověřují své závěry a podléhají kritice kolegů. Jenže v realitě si každý může najít jednoho „odborníka“, který potvrzuje jeho názor – i kdyby to byl jediný člověk proti tisícům jiných vědců.