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Terry Eagleton:

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

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Leo Tolstoy:

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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Longinus:

Utterances which appear inspired are often not sublime but merely childish.

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Donald Grant Mitchell:

I find no man so disagreeable to meet with, as one who knows everything.

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Joyce Carol Oates:

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

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Bella Abzug:

. . . Congress has got to begin to reflect in its composition the great diversity of this country.

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John Kenneth Galbraith:

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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Neera Tanden:

The American system of checks and balances is only as strong as the leaders who have the character and courage to enforce them.

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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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Larry Bushey:

There’s a difference between hearing and listening.

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Guy Marks, in the voice of Shorty Smith:

Today, my motto is if at first you don’t succeed, quit.

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David Lloyd George:

Deception is always a pretty contemptible vice, but to deceive the poor is the meanest of all.

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Bill Downs:

The fault of democracy everywhere, including the United States of America, is that too few people make use of it.

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Robert Gilpin:

Every dominant state, and particularly an empire, promotes a religion or ideology that justifies its domination over other states in the system.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.:

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

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Robert Rinder:

We need journalists to be fearless and hold power to account.

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Marco Denevi:

The moral of all fables: Man is an animal.

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H. L. Mencken:

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

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Gore Vidal:

The rhetoric of hate is often most effective when couched in the idiom of love.

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Michael F. Flynn:

He believed because he wanted to believe. And that, too, is madness.

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