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Oskar Schindler:

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

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Immanuel Kant:

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

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David Ferguson:

I don’t ever want to hear that we don’t have food for children ever ever ever again. . . . Bombs cost millions of dollars and you can only use the once and suddenly the pockets are bottomless when it’s time the shoot and kill people and drop bombs on them, but when it’s time to feed children or pay teachers, we can’t do that.

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Horatio Nelson:

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.

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Goparaju Ramachandra Rao:

Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?

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Frank Herbert:

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

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Steven Wright:

Everywhere is walking distance if you’ve got the time.

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Will Rogers:

When the Judgment Day comes civilization will have an alibi, “I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with.”

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Nefertiti:

You can’t change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it’s an oasis won’t make it so.

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Jeff Flake:

A major difference between politicians and the free press is that the press usually corrects itself when it gets something wrong. Politicians don’t.

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Ursula Howells, in the voice of Lady Isabel Aubrey:

All men are credulous animals. We must all believe in something.

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Winston Churchill:

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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Sinclair Lewis:

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

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Michael Pollan:

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

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John Nettles, in voice of DCI Tom Barnaby to his wife as he reads a newspaper story:

What’s the world coming to, Joyce. Half a paragraph on the crime and a whole page on something that doesn’t exist.

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Pauline Kael:

Regrettably, one of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

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Rebecca West:

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

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Angela Davis:

Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings. And the practice of disappearing vast numbers of people from poor, immigrant and racially marginalized communities has literally become big business.

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St. Jerome:

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Calgacus:

They plunder, they slaughter, and they steal: this they falsely name Empire, and where they make a wasteland, they call it peace.

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