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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

That’s one of the nice things about living in a free country. The government is responsible to the people, and not the other way around.

Afterthought:

Misty water-colored memories . . . .

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David Jason, in the voice of D.I. Frost:

The more you know about people, the more you appreciate dogs.

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Ross MacDonald:

How can a man help breaking the law when he don’t have money to live on?

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Lionel Shriver:

Reality doesn’t have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

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Raymond Chandler:

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

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Colin Powell:

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter.

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Booker T. Washington:

You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.

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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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Kurt Vonnegut:

There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

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T. E. Lawrence:

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

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Robert Benchley:

There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.

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Jerome Bruner:

Education must be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

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Thomas Jefferson:

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

I wonder what he would have said about “social” media?

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Edmund Crispin, in the voice of Gervase Fen:

Never forget that political zealots are people who are over-indulging their emotional need of hatred.

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George Carlin:

Think it through: If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and you screw things up, then you’re responsible for what they’ve done. You voted them in. You caused the problem.

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Anders Chydenius:

The exercise of one coercion always makes another inevitable.

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W. E. B. Du Bois:

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

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Voltaire:

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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Claire McCaskill:

I think, first of all, you know, Washington has a bad habit of a very short attention span.

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Theodore Roosevelt:

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

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