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Tina Louise, in the voice of Ginger Grant:

None proclaim their innocence so loudly as the guilty.

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

Some people spend their lives complaining about what they haven’t got or getting more than they need. They never seem to enjoy what they have.

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Sinclair Lewis:

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

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Isabel Allende:

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

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Jim Backus, in the voice of Thurston Howell III:

. . . when people are in trouble, they make concessions and promises. When their trouble is over, they forget those fancy promises.

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Robert Shea:

But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.

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Jamele Hill:

Americans love to be entertained, often at the expense of our judgment, morals and values.

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

Facts don’t seem to matter in a political town.

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Philip K. Dick:

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

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John Ruskin:

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

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Han Fei:

. . . a ruler who mistakes reputation for ability when assigning offices will see his state fall into disorder.

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Cherie Blair:

Torture corrupts those who are doing the torturing.

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Jeff Rich:

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

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John Locke:

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

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Mark Twain:

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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John Kenneth Galbraith:

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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Kazuo Ishiguro :

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

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Charlotte Bronte:

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

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Bob Cesca (about 10 minutes into the show, if you want to listen for context):

Social media is all about data-mining.

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Valerie Jarrett:

Our democracy… is only as good as the American people demand it should be.

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