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Ashanti Holdbrook:

It’s ok to say I’m not racist, but are you anti-racist? That’s the key.

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Dag Hammarskjöld:

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

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Reinhold Niebuhr:

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

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John Arbuthnot:

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

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Lew Wallace:

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

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Henrik Ibsen:

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

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Niels Bohr:

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

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Betty Cracker (nom de blog) at Balloon Juice:

It’s so confusing when creeping authoritarianism arrives not in jackboots but in a . . . diaper.

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Steven Novella:

The inability to explain something doesn’t mean that it is inexplicable.

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Benjamin Disraeli:

Ignorance never settles a question.

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William Makepeace Thackery:

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

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Kerry Greenwood, in the voice of Phryne Fisher:

If you are not scared, there is no merit in being brave.

Greenwood, Kerry, Death at Victoria Dock (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007), p. 149.

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William James:

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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Abigail Adams:

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, ‘Give, give.’

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Akiro Kurosawa:

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves.

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Desmond Tutu:

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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Francois Fenelon:

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

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Gloria Allread:

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That’s their problem. It’s not mine.

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Rex Stout:

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man’s decisions are based on his rational process. That I don’t believe at all.

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Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg:

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

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