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Rene Descartes:

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

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William Ralph Inge:

There are two kinds of fools: one says, “This is old, therefore it is good”; the other says, “This is new, therefore it is better.”

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Bernard Baruch:

The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.

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Philip K. Dick:

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

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Kenneth L. Pike:

Today’s practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday’s theory.

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Kerry Greenwood:

Evolution, Phryne sometimes thought, had a long way to go before Homo became even close to sapiens.

Greenwood, Kerry, Murder on a Midsummer Night (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2910) p. 219

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Hannah Arendt:

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

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Joe Mantell, in the voice of Al Teresi:

I’ll never understand you people. You’d think a few million bucks would be enough, but you gotta have it all.

Context:

In this episode of Hart to Hart, he’s speaking to a rich client who’s just threatened him not to reveal said client’s crime, but he might as well have been speaking to any number of real-life persons you and I can name.

By the way, that episode is an absolute hoot! I saw it on Tubi.

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Moshe Dayan:

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

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Cheech Marin:

I guess one of the ways that karma works is that it finds out what you are most afraid of and then makes that happen eventually.

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William James:

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.

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Plato:

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:

Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

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Will Rogers:

Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.

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Pearl Bailey:

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

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Kurt Vonnegut:

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

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E. B. White:

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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Tristan Harris:

None of most powerful tech companies answer to what’s best for people, only to what’s best for them.

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Susan B. Anthony:

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

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Blake Edwards:

It’s been my experience that every time I think I know where it’s at, it’s usually somewhere else.

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