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Angus King:

Jefferson said the states are the laboratories of democracy. But the problem is, nobody reads the lab reports.

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Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis:

There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.

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James Thurber:

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

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Dorothy Parker:

There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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Margaret Chase Smith:

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little.

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Bill Haywood:

If one man has a dollar he didn’t work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn’t get.

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Lin Yutang:

The Chinese believe that when there are too many policemen, there can be no individual liberty, when there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice, and when there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace.

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Bernice King:

It is terribly inhumane to block pathways out of poverty because you didn’t need those pathways.

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Rex Stout:

. . . the only way to get something out of your mind is to get something else in.

Stout, Rex, Death of a Doxy, (New York: Bantam, 1967) p. 60.

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Gregory Peck:

It just seems silly to me that something so right and simple has to be fought for at all.

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Walter Reuther:

There’s a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

Q. E. D.

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Pauline Kael:

TV executives think that the programs with the highest ratings are what TV viewers want, rather than what they settle for.

TV executives–and lots of other decision makers.

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Albert Camus:

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

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Max Frisch:

A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.

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Ernie Kovacs:

Television is a medium, so called because it is neither rare nor well-done.

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Francis Quarles:

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true. Where lies are easily admitted the father of lies will not easily be excluded.

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George Carlin:

When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts . . . .

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Jean de La Bruyère:

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well, nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

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Paul Farmer:

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the world.

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Hannah Arendt:

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

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