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Aleksandr Pushkin:

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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Mary Wollstonecraft:

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

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Alexis de Tocqueville:

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

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Robert Winston:

We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.

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Barbara Bain, in the voice of Prudence:

Oh, it’s a wonderful world if you can afford it.

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Nick Tate, in the voice of Ross Townsend:

You know, there’s only two ways to a businessman’s heart, cash in his pocket and grog down his throat.

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H. L. Mencken:

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

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Sinclair Lewis:

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

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Immanuel Kant:

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

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Will Durant:

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves . . . .

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Richard Aldington:

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

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Livy:

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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Chiff Schecter:

Wherever you aren’t is where the best stuff is happening.

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Peter Caffrey, in the voice of Barry:

The best thing about hangovers is they can only get better.

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Gustav Flaubert:

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

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Tom Lehrer:

I have always found it interesting… that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

Such as, just to pull something out of thin air, AI Chatbots and LLMs.

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Ken Kesey:

If you’re a Conservative, why aren’t you behind conserving the land?

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Dwight Eisenhower:

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt:

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

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Kenneth Clark:

It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

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