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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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Rex Stout:

. . . impetuosity is a virtue only when delay is dangerous.

Stout, Rex, Too Many Clients (New York: Bantam, 1971) p. 22.

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Bruce Schneier:

If you think technology will solve your problem, you don’t understand your problem and you don’t understand technology.

Follow the link for the backstory.

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Immanuel Wallerstein:

The past can be told as it truly is, not was. For recounting the past is a social act of the present done by men of the present and affecting the social system of the present.

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Josefina Lopez:

A privileged position can help you to think that you are entitled to everything, and are above others. Reverse that and you can see how it isn’t true.

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Kurt Vonnegut:

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

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Jasmine Crockett:

I tell people all the time, you may not do politics, but politics will do you.

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William Forrest, in the voice of Mr. Branch:

Well, as I see it, animal pictures will be box-office as long as people like animals, which is more universal than people liking people.

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Alice, in the Warner Brothers cartoon, The Honey-Mousers:

I’ve seen better heads on a glass of beer.

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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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