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Robert K. Merton:

The extreme emphasis upon the accumulation of wealth as a symbol of success in our society militates against the completely effective control of institutionally regulated modes of acquiring a fortune.

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Robert Ellis, in the voice of Dexter Franklin:

Like the man says, money talks. The only trouble is all mine ever says is good-bye.

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Wendy Kaminer:

If we all don’t enjoy the same rights, then no one enjoys any rights at all; some of us merely enjoy privilege.

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Nell Irvin Painter:

The whole point of defining races is mostly to put people down . . . .

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John Dalberg Acton:

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

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Voltaire:

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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Calvin Coolidge:

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

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Booker T. Washington:

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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Honore de Balzac:

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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Jeffrey Kluger:

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It’s a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

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Henry Miller:

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

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Maimonides:

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

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Thomas Paine:

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

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Erma Bombeck:

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

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Rosa Parks:

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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Tom Robbins:

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.

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James Randi:

Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

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Vladimir Nabokov:

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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Franz Kafka:

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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Kurt Vonnegut:

What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.

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