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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:

The world will never be without sin, poverty, and attorneys.

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Chandra Shekhar:

There comes a time when one has to choose whether to kneel and be blessed, or to stand up and be counted. I choose the latter.

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Joni Mitchell:

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

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Letitia Baldridge:

For every step forward in electronic communications, we’ve taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We’re too self-obsessed.

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Hippocrates:

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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Lloyd Alexander:

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.

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Frank Zappa:

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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Gil Scott-Heron:

Everything that’s bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that’s the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

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Michael Pollan:

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

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C. S. Lewis:

I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.

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Charles de Gaulle:

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

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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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Philo:

But you say, “by obedience to another he loses his liberty.” How then is it that children suffer the orders of their father and mother, and pupils the injunctions of their instructors?

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Milan Kundera:

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.

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Walter Winchell:

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

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Robert Peel:

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

(This is a second post that was inadvertently published early and then rescheduled. My lamer excuse is that I’m still getting used to the keyboard on my new laptop, as it’s a slightly different size from that on my old laptop, which has started showing signs of age.)

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Jonathan Swift:

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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Alan K. Simpson:

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn.

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Gilbert Highet:

The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.

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