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Adam Smith:

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

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Pierre Charron:

He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.

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Donald James:

At least half of my life’s many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

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Nick Turse:

You don’t need a digital David Petraeus or a President Bush avatar to distract you from the truth. You don’t need to wait decades to have disinformation beamed into your head. You just need a constant stream of misleading information, half truths, and fictions to be promoted, pushed, and peddled until they are accepted as fact.

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Clarence Darrow:

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

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Blase J. Cupich:

For generations, our political life was distorted by the influence of public officials whose foremost goal was to preserve the essence, if not the form, of slavery in a segregated and discriminatory social system.

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David de Keyser, in the voice of Joshua de Talmont:

. . . it’s easier to hate than to understand.

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Sam Rayburn:

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

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Constant Lambert:

Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.

Aside:

For some fool reasion. today’s Republican Party comes to mind.

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Walter Gropius:

The mind is like an umbrella – it functions best when open.

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Larry Flynt:

Majority rule only works if you’re also considering individual rights. Because you can’t have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.

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Harry Turtledove:

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

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Jane Wagner:

It’s my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

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Alex Haley:

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

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A. J. Ayer:

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

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Kyra Sedgwick, in the voice of Brenda Leigh Johnson:

If we all stop lying to each other, how will we ever get to the truth?

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Audrey Hepburn:

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

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John Hay:

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

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Blaise Pascal:

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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John Wooden:

Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.

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