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Dick Francis:

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

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Barbara Murray, in the voice of Denise Dumont:

The secret is in the appearance. As long as the packaging looks expensive, nobody cares what’s inside.

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William James:

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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Learned Hand:

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

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Clive Bell:

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

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Hunter S. Thompson:

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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David Spade, in the voice of Dennis Finch:

People believe anything, no matter how cuckoo, as long it’s what they want to believe.

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Baron d’Holbach:

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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Tom Baker:

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

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Charlotte Bronte:

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

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Jeffrey Kluger:

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can’t therefore argue that the net doesn’t exist. Just ask the fish.

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Alexis de Tocqueville:

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

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Demosthenes:

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

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Tom Clancy:

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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Art Buchwald:

You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.

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Hugh O’Brian, in the voice of Wyatt Earp, and Mason Alan Dinehart, in the voice of Bat Masterson:

Masterson: Well, just what is vagrancy?

Earp: If you’re playing poker and you win, you’re a sportin’ man. But if you lose, you’re a vagrant.

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David Ferguson:

We are being ruled by middle school bullies.

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Felix Adler:

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

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Kenneth Clarke:

Only an ideologue deals with the world as he would wish it to be, as opposed to the world as it is.

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Chris Potter, in the voice of Det. Sgt. Tom Ryan:

We don’t always get happy endings in real life. That’s why people go to the movies.

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