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Honore de Balzac:

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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Tom Stoppard:

It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.

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George Bernard Shaw:

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

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Herbert Hoover:

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

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Nicolas Chamfort:

Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he’s always ready to escape their control.

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Dick Cavett:

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

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Madame de Stael:

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man’s power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

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Lysander Spooner:

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

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Ralph Phillips, character in the MGM cartoon, “Boyhood Daze”:

I get blamed for everything I do.

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Douglas William Jerrold:

God said, “Let us make man in our image.” Man said, ‘Let us make God in our image.”

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Hy Averback, as the Narrator:

There’s only one perfect piece of advice for one friend to give another. Give it, and you’ll never get in trouble. And you can say it in three words: don’t ask me.

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Philo:

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

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Harry S Truman:

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

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H. P. Lovecraft:

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man’s opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he’s talking about.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower:

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.

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Daisaku Ikeda:

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

And, I would add, not to do so betrays that hopw.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‘Citizens United.’ I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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Isaac Asimov:

Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

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H. G. Wells:

Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.

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Dorothy Day:

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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