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Barry Sanders:

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, ‘Speak truth to power’. Power knows the truth. It’s speaking the truth to yourself that’s the challenge.

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Barry Diller:

The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.

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Philip K. Dick:

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

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Terry Farrell, in the voice of Reggie Kostas:

It’s part of life, Becker. People move on. They get older. Even pro golfers have to move on to the senior tour.

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Joyce Carol Oates:

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

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Arthur C. Clarke:

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

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P. G. Wodehouse:

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

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Vladimir Nabokov:

The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.

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Alexis de Tocqueville:

“The will of the nation” is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

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Ted Danson, in the voice of Dr. John Becker:

TV has become nothing more than the petri dish where this country grows its idiots.

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Anton Checkov:

Good breeding doesn’t mean that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice when someone else does.

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Denis Diderot:

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.Deni

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Bernard Beckett:

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

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P. T. Barnum:

Money is in some respects life’s fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

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Robert G. Ingersholl:

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth does not need the assistance of miracle. A fact will fit every other fact in the Universe, because it is the product of all other facts. A lie will fit nothing except another lie made for the express purpose of fitting it.

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold–if you have a brain.

Stout, Rex, Might As Well Be Dead (New York: Bantam, 1993) p. 94.

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Jim Wallis:

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it’s a faith issue, it’s a religious issue.

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P. D. James:

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren’t credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

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Blaise Pascal:

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

(Broken link fixed.)

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Tom Clancy:

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

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