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Clarence Darrow:

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey.

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Ivan Illich:

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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David Ferguson:

Elect a clown. Get a circus.

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Blaise Pascal:

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

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Hans-Georg Gadamer:

Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

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Ruth J. Simmons:

It’s very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.

Q. E. D.

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Carl Hiaasen:

They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.

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Brian Vaszily:

The number one rule of today’s marketing – the key secret of those who seek to control your beliefs and habits in order to take your money, your votes, your time or whatever else it is they desire from you – is to always keep in mind that nobody really believes they can be manipulated.

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Bernardo Dovizi:

It is better to speak the truth, and lose, than to win by lying.

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Pindar:

War is sweet to them that know it not.

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Niccolò Machiavelli:

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

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Omar Bradley:

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.

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Pauley Perrette:

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

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Gwilym Lee, in the voice of DS Charlie Nelson:

Think of all the stupid things you did when you were a kid. You did them because you were with your mates, egging each other on.

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Henry A. Wallace:

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

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Havelock Ellis:

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

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Galen:

The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

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Hayley Mills, in the voice of Lizzy Thornfield:

They say that time is a great healer, but that’s a lie. When you lose someone you love, the pain never goes away.

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Thomas Hardy:

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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UVa’s Larry Sabato, regarding Donald Trump’s reaction to the death from cancer of JFK’s granddaughter:

There is no bottom for Trump.

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