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Harry S. Truman:

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

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Gale Storm, in the voice of Margie Albright:

Why bother with the truth? It’s so dull.

Pretty much sums up dis coarse discourse, does it not?

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David Garrick:

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

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Dashiell Hammett:

All successful bunko men come in time to believe the world, except for themselves, is populated with a race of human sheep who may be trusted to conduct themselves with true sheeplike docility.

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Remind you of anyone in the news?

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Konrad Adenauer:

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also limit his stupidity.

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Thomas Paine:

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

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Winston Churchill:

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

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B. F. Skinner:

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

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Hunter S. Thompson:

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

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Alexandre Dumas:

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

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Jasmine Crockett:

The best way to hold a people down is to make sure they aren’t educated.

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Confucius:

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

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Benjamin Whichcote:

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

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Albert Camus:

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Q. E. D.

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John Wood, in the voice of Patrick Tyneman:

Time’s a thief, Jean. Don’t waste any of the little that you have.

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Alexander Hamilton:

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

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Plutarch:

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

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John Naisbitt:

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

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Anthony Eden:

Corruption never has been compulsory.

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Anna Garlin Spencer:

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman’s brain!

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