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Nick Tosches:

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

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June 26, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Kerry Greenwood:

A moment’s acquaintance was enough to convince her that Mrs. Freeman would not know anything that she did not want to know.

Greenwood, Kerry, The Green Mill Murder (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007), p. 31.

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June 25, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Lou Ferrigno:

Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

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June 24, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Nile Kinnick:

Too much time is spent getting ready to live and making a living and not enough in living dynamically and enjoyably right now. The most important thing – and I am sure I am right – is to maintain an active, alert interest in everything going on about you.

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June 23, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Elmer Davis:

The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.

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June 22, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Demosthenes:

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

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June 21, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Honore de Balzac:

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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June 20, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Steven Weber:

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game – the soldiers – into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

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June 19, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Walter Kaufmann:

The most obvious failure of organized religions is surely that almost all of them have made a mockery of what their founders taught.

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June 18, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Herbert Butterfield:

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness—each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked—each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

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June 17, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Herodotus:

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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June 16, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Epicurus:

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

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June 15, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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J. R. R. Tolkien:

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

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June 14, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jackie Robinson:

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

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June 13, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Juvenal:

No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

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June 12, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Rosa Parks:

People always said that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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June 11, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Pete Hamill:

Nothing surprises me, particularly men and their propensity to be fools.

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June 10, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Judy Holliday, appearing on The Big Show (the link below will open audio of the specific episode):

A specialist is a doctor who has trained all his patients to be sick only during office hours.

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June 9, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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William Pitt the Younger:

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

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June 9, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Sir Thomas Browne:

Men have lost their reason in nothing so much as in their religion, wherein stones and clouts make martyrs; and, since the religion of one seems madness unto another, to afford an account or rational(e) of old rites requires no rigid reader.

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June 8, 2020 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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