Jim's Pond - Exploring the Universe of Ideas

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friday, August 29, 2003

Quote O' the Friday

"Thomas Jefferson once said that given the choice between good government and a good newspaper, he'd take the newspaper. Much later in life he said that you shouldn't read newspapers at all because it's better to be ignorant than misinformed.

Both statements sort of ring true, don't they?"

-- John Gierach
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