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Twm Morys:

While we’re still afraid of what we don’t understand, there will be monsters.

(Incorrect attribution correxed. Frankly–I do everything frankly–in this show it is rather difficult to know who is saying what.)

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D. H. Lawrence:

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.

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Benjamin Rush:

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them. . . .

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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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Rosa Parks:

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

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Ted Lieu:

Refugees don’t make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.

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Jerry Garcia:

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

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Victor Hugo:

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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Robert Reich:

It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they’re going too far.

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Benjamin Harrison:

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

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Robert A. Heinlein:

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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Jamele Hill:

No problem in the history of humankind has ever gotten solved by evading it.

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Iain McColl, in the voice of Neil the Bus:

The only absolute truth is there is no absolute truth.

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Anna Quindlen:

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

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Jack Nickell:

People do not scrutinize that which they are glad to hear.

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Audrey Hepburn:

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself … All of which I’ve earned a living doing.

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Mark Williams, in the voice of Father Brown:

Sometimes we don’t notice that which we see every day.

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Nicolas Chamfort:

Having lots of ideas doesn’t mean you’re clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you’re a good general.

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Paul Harvey:

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

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Baruch Spinoza:

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

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