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Robert Smith Surtees:

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

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Ken Burns:

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

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Eric Hoffer:

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

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Charles Dudley Warner:

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

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Bernard Ingham:

Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory.

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Hy Averback, as the Narrator:

Friendship is a precious thing. And the moral of this story is, to help keep your friends, remember those two beautiful words, “shut up.”

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Paulo Freire:

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed.

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Robert G. Ingersoll:

All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da fe, and lovingly built the dungeons of the Inquisition.

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Martin Shaw, in the voice of Doyle:

The most efficient blunt instrument is a checkbook.

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Tom Clancy:

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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Paul Samuelson:

Let those who will – write the nation’s laws – if I can write its textbooks.

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Nancy Cartwright:

The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.

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Alain de Botton:

There may be no good reason for things to be the way they are.

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Honore de Balzac:

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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Desmond Tutu:

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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John Nettles, in the voice of DCI Tom Barnaby, and Montserrat Lombard, in the voice of Philomena Bell

Bell: Seb says it’s the modern disease.

Barnaby: What is?

Bell: Chronic dissatisfaction.

(Typo fixited.)

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Victor Hugo:

Toleration is the best religion.

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Mazie Hirono:

Our country is made up of groups of immigrants who came here hoping for a better life. They created America. It’s a sad thing to have so many people not remember that . . . .

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Calvin Coolidge:

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

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Soren Kierkegaard:

Once you label me you negate me.

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