Leerkracht quote van de dag...

[Wouter]

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

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Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson

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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity

George Bernard Shaw

[Barst]

A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but doesn't have an air force

Unknown

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"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire, and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."

Tacitus - Roman historian - c. 55-120 A.D.

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"If a baseball player slides into home plate and, right before the umpire rules if he is safe or out, the player says to the umpire - 'Here is $1,000.' What would we call that? We would call that a bribe. If a lawyer was arguing a case before a judge and said, 'Your honor before you decide on the guilt or innocence of my client, here is $1,000.' What would we call that? We would call that a bribe.
"But if an industry lobbyist walks into the office of a key legislator and hands her or him a check for $1,000, we call that a campaign contribution. We should call it a bribe."

Janice Fine - Dollars and Sense magazine

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"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are."

Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses, 1513-1517