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William Ralph Inge:

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

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H. Rider Haggard:

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

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Fran Tarkenton:

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

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Socrates:

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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Confucius:

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

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Linus Pauling:

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

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Kerry Greenwood, who makes words dance:

(His) view was that, if you were going to break vows, you should break them hard and repent afterwards.

Greenwood, Kerry, The Castlemaine Murders (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2006), p. 180.

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Bettany Hughes (discussing Socrates’s defense at his trial in ancient Athens):

The city that once fetishized freedom and freedom of speech could not tolerate the freedom to offend.

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Hermann Hesse:

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

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W. E. B. DuBois:

A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.

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Kerry Greenwood:

The more terrible the times, the more people gamble. Gambling gives them hope.

Greenwood, Kerry, The Castlemaine Murders (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2006), p. 113.

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Alfred North Whitehead:

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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Terry Eagleton:

The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.

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Joseph Roux:

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

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Bill Bradley:

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

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Michael Palin:

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won’t be made safer by creating barriers between people.

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Harry S. Truman:

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

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Kerry Greenwood:

When will you learn . . . that inadvisable is not the same as undesirable.

Greenwood, Kerry, Murder in Montparnasse (Scottsdale, AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, 2005), p. 237

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John Updike:

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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Sheila Sim, as Miss Frayle in the Doctor Morelle mystery, “Act of Violence”:

It must be marvelous always to feel so sure you are right, and that the other person must be wrong.

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