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I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. -- Philip Johnson
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. -- Jostein Gaarder
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent. -- Abraham Flexner
The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education. -- Michael J. Saylor
Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no gadflies of worry exist he will invent them. -- Alison Fell
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you. -- Socrates
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies. -- Lee Strobel
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if sound, the spearhead of progress. If they are fundamentally wrong, free discussion will in time put an end to them. -- Abraham Flexner

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