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Shirley MacLaine:

Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. It’s where all the fruit is.

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Alexander MacKenzie:

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

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Penn Jillette:

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don’t need religion.

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Jared Cohen:

We live in a world where all wars will begin as cyber wars… It’s the combination of hacking and massive, well-coordinated disinformation campaigns.

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Chuck Hagel:

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn’t take an oath of office to my party or my president.

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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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P. G. Wodehouse:

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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H. Rider Haggard:

I do not believe in violence; it is the last resort of fools.

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Confucius:

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

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Graham Jarvis, in the voice of Ben Drootin visiting an Old West theme town:

Do you believe people actually used to live like this? No running water. No electricity. What did they do for excitement with no TV?

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Emile Durkheim:

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

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Pliny the Elder:

It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.

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Twm Morys:

While we’re still afraid of what we don’t understand, there will be monsters.

(Incorrect attribution correxed. Frankly–I do everything frankly–in this show it is rather difficult to know who is saying what.)

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D. H. Lawrence:

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.

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Benjamin Rush:

Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them. . . .

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Richard Aldington:

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

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Rosa Parks:

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

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Ted Lieu:

Refugees don’t make our country less safe. But xenophobia, fear and hate do.

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Jerry Garcia:

Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.

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Victor Hugo:

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

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