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Benjamin Harrison:

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

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Robert A. Heinlein:

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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Jamele Hill:

No problem in the history of humankind has ever gotten solved by evading it.

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Iain McColl, in the voice of Neil the Bus:

The only absolute truth is there is no absolute truth.

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Anna Quindlen:

The victim mentality may be the last uncomplicated thing about life in America.

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Jack Nickell:

People do not scrutinize that which they are glad to hear.

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Audrey Hepburn:

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself … All of which I’ve earned a living doing.

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Mark Williams, in the voice of Father Brown:

Sometimes we don’t notice that which we see every day.

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Nicolas Chamfort:

Having lots of ideas doesn’t mean you’re clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you’re a good general.

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Paul Harvey:

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

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Baruch Spinoza:

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

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Paul Wellstone:

If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.

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Clare McConnell, in the voice of Effie Newsome:

I’m a lawyer, George. I don’t require explanation. I just need reasonable doubt.

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Greig Pickhaver:

To understand our place in the world, we need to make sense of our past.

Afterthought:

Those who would prevent us from making sense of our past wish to lead us into a senseless future.

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Jeremy Bentham:

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

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Kerry Greenwood:

If you are not scared then there is no merit to being brave.

Greenwood, Kerry, Death at Victoria Dock (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007) p. 149

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Samuel Johnson:

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

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J. Maarten Troost:

It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

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Isaac Newton:

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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Patrick Swayze:

The way to screw up somebody’s life is to give them what they want.

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