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William Beck, in the voice of Detective Inspector Piers Tarrant:

The modern holy trinity is money, sex, and celebrity.

Aside:

The show aired in 2005, when Twitter and the Zuckerborg were in their infancy. Today, “likes” and “retweets” might replace one, if not two, of those items.

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W. Bruce Cameron:

I’ve read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.

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Andrew Lang:

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.

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Timothy Daly, in the voice of Joe Hackett:

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have wonderful Christmas.

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Alexander Graham Bell:

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer:

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

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Paul Farmer:

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the world.

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Aldous Huxley:

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Q. E. D.

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Naomi Iizuka:

I think it is dangerous to run away from history.

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Max Boot:

I have not given up my faith in democracy – it remains the worst form of government except for all the others – but I have given up my youthful expectation that it would inevitably triumph.

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G. K. Chesterton:

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

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Kenneth L. Pike:

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

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Edmund Crispin:

Human beings who propose doing something idiotic generally manage to persuade themselves that the laws of nature are going to be suspended for their benefit . . . .

Crispin, Edmund (Robert Bruce Montgomery), The Long Divorce (Ipso Books, 2017), p. 67.
(I was unable to find any information about Ipso books, there is no physical address in the
volume, and the website, www.ipsobooks.com, listed on the book appears to be defunct.
But the book is real and readily available from other sources.)

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Emma Goldman:

Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

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Louisa May Alcott:

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.

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Nina Federoff:

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

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Edith Hamilton:

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life.

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Ursula K. Le Guin:

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

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Diane Sawyer:

I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

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Jeremy Collier:

Belief gets in the way of learning.

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