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John Barth:

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

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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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Blaise Pascal:

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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Dwight Eisenhower:

Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.

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Harry S. Truman:

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

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Tommy Douglas:

We believe that no nation can survive politically free but economically enslaved.

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Joan Robinson:

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.

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Virginia Woolf:

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

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Humphrey Bogart:

Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse.

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Frank A. Clark:

If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.

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Ray Walston, in the voice of Martin the Martian:

Sarcasm is not a substitute for wit.

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Pearl S. Buck:

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

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Voltaire:

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

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Eric Zorn:

You can’t buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

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Livy:

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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Barbara Tuchman:

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

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Henry James:

I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.

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Quentin Crisp:

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

In a word that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Stout, Rex, Champagne for One (in a dual volume with Too Many Cooks) (New York, Bantam, 2009) p. 71.

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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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