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Bob Newhart, in the voice of Bob Hartley:

Thomas Paine was wrong. These are the times that try men’s souls.

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Thiruvalluvar:

Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?

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Norman Lamm:

Mutual commitment to ideals — yes; the stifling of all dissenting notions — no.

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Paul Watford:

I do not believe there are any circumstances in which a judge should consider his or her own values or policy preferences in determining what the law means.

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Bob Newhart, in the voice of Robert Hartley:

There is a differnce between little white lies and science fiction.

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Carl Jung:

The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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Andre Gide:

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

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Livy:

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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Robert Goldsborough:

I find it amazing hoW eager some people are to deliver news that might be found disturbing to the recipient.

Goldsborough, Robert, The Battered Badge (New York: Mysterious Press, 2018), p. 128.

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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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Harry Shearer:

Crypto-fraudster. Is that a redundancy yet?

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Fran de Waal:

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

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Louis Kronenberger:

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

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Alfred Adler:

It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

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Luigi Pirandello:

Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn’t it?

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Jerry Coyne:

Anybody who claims that people don’t cherry-pick their morality from the Bible, choosing that which comports with their extra-Biblical notions of what’s good and bad, is simply blind.

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David Hume:

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

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L. Frank Baum:

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that “when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.”

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Henry A. Wallace:

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Q. E. D.

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Weaver Levy, as George Moon:

The innocent trust; the wise are wary.

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