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Jean de La Bruy:

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.

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Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards and Gavin MacLeod as Murray Slaughter:

Moore: You said you voted for Peterson, didn’t you?

MacLeod: Yeah.

Moore: You mind my asking why?

MacLeod: Sure. He was a Moe.

Moore: What’s a Moe?

MacLeod: Eenie Meeney Miney Mo.

And that’s how democracy dies.

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William Tecumseh Sherman:

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

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Quentin Crisp:

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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Edmund Crispin, in the voice of Gervase Fen:

You think it’s best to let sleeping dogs lie. Only sooner or later, you know, they wake up on their own accord . . . .

Crispin, Edmund, “The Drowning of Edgar Foley,” Fen Country (London: Bloomsbury, 2013) p. 34

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David Suchet:

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

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Valerie Harper, in the voice of Rhoda Morgenstern:

You know the best thing about going on a diet? Going off a diet.

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Ma Jian:

When history is erased, people’s moral values are also erased.

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Stanley Knowles:

One of the facts of history is that battles do not stay won. Those that matter have to be waged again and again.

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Chester Barnard:

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

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Georgia Lee:

People like to believe really crazy things.

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R. H. Tawney:

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

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H. G. Wells:

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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Kurt Vonnegut:

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

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Rachel Cusk:

To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

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Amy Pietz, in the voice of Annie Spadaro:

It’s the internet. No one knows who you really are. You can say what you want.

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T. J. Tyne, in the voice of Jack Hodgins:

Assumptions–they always obscure the truth.

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P. D. James:

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

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C. Wright Mills:

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

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Jane Wyman:

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

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