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UVa’s Larry Sabato, regarding Donald Trump’s reaction to the death from cancer of JFK’s granddaughter:

There is no bottom for Trump.

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Jack Klugman:

Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.

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H, P. Lovecraft:

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

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Ruby Dee:

It’s getting increasingly difficult to be a dreamer under any circumstances.

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Cato the Elder:

Those who commit private theft pass their lives in confinement and fetters; plunderers of the public, in gold and purple.

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Jamie Raskin:

Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You didn’t place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.

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Missy Gold, in the voice of Katherine ‘Katie’ Olivia Gatling:

If there were dirty books in the library, boys would get library cards.

Afterthought:

If you can find that episode of Benson, you should watch it.

It’s happening in real life as I type this.

I watched it on Tubi.

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Gary Allan:

Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

There are too many people in this world who spend their lives trying to get away with things.

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Blake Edwards:

It’s been my experience that every time I think I know where it’s at, it’s usually somewhere else.

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Stanley Kubrick:

There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

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Neil Dudgeon, in the voice of DCI John Barnaby, to DS Ben Jones, voiced by Jason Hughes:

The internet is a dangerous place to do research, Jones.

It was true when the show was first broadcast, and it’s still true today.

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Max Lerner:

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

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Salman Rushdie:

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

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John Galsworthy:

If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one.

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

I think I’ve got something to contribute and they don’t see that I have ideas at all. All they see is black.

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

You get headaches? I thought you only gave them.

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Eugène Ionesco:

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

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John Nettles, in the voice of DCI Tom Barnaby:

Well, that’s religion for you, Jones. It brings out the irrational in people.

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Benjamin Disraeli:

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

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