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Earl Warren:

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

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William Finnegan:

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

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Kenneth L. Pike:

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

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Don Marquis:

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

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Bill Vaughan:

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart:

When they (wounded soldiers in trenches on the Western Front in WWI–ed.) cannot get water from the canteens, they drink what is in the bottom of the trench.

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Victor Hugo:

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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Grover Cleveland:

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

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Rod Serling:

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

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Peter Thomas:

Where there is money, there is often corruption.

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Shirley MacLaine:

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

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Marilyn Frye:

Men see with arrogant eyes which organize everything seen with reference to themselves and their own interests.

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H. G. Wells:

If we don’t end war, war will end us.

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Gerald W. Johnson:

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

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Albert Jay Nock:

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests — if you try to feed it with a shovel you get bad results.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart:

There is no such thing as civilization as a warlike people. There are peaceful people, or aggressive people, or military people, but there are none that do not prefer peace to war, until, inflamed and roused by those above them who play this game of empires, they must don the panoply of battle, and go forth.

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Constantin Brunner:

Men are forever doing two things at the same time: acting egoistically and talking moralistically.

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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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Virginia Woolf:

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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Caroline Graham, in the voice of Cully Barnaby:

I’ve no problem with with people who are insincerely pleasant. It’s the sincerely unpleasant who get up my nose.

Graham, Caroline, A Ghost in the Machine (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004), p. 221.

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