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William Zinsser:

We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.

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John Dos Passos:

Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.

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Virginia Woolf:

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

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Albie Woodington, in the voice of Sergeant Warden:

These are desperate times, Brother. Desperate men don’t think.

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Peter Ustinov:

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.

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David Ogilvy*:

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.

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*And he would know.

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Aeschines:

He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.

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Fiona Gillies, in the voice of Susanna Aurifaber:

In this world, what receive and what we deserve are rarely the same.

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Alfred Nobel:

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

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Susan Sontag:

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

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Norman Douglas:

You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements.

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Penn Jillette:

The First Amendment says nothing about your getting paid for saying anything. It just says you can say it. I don’t believe that if a corporation pulls all the money out of you or a network pulls their money away or you get fired, you’re being censored.

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Drew Magary:

There’s a fine line between skepticism and cynicism . . . .

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Elisha Gray:

Science has no prejudices — though scientists often do. Science is like figures: they do not lie themselves, but the men who figure are often the greatest liars in the world.

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Artemus Ward:

The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

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Blaise Pascal:

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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Soren Kierkegaard:

You wanted God’s ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.

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Todd Gitlin:

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

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Jason Hughes, as Detective Sergeant Ben Jones:

The law, Mr. Perkins, is like the Bible. You can always find one quote to contradict another.

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Hubert H. Humphrey:

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

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