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Georg Cristoph Lichtenberg:

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

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Quintus Curtius Rufus:

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

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Theodore Roosevelt:

I believe in property rights, but I believe in them as adjuncts to, and not as substitutes for human rights. I believe that normally the rights of property coincide with the rights of man; but where they do not, then the rights of man must be; put above the rights of property.

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William Tecumseh Sherman:

Wars do not usually result from just causes but from pretexts. There probably never was a just cause why men should slaughter each other by wholesale, but there are such things as ambition, selfishness, folly, madness, in communities as in individuals, which become blind and bloodthirsty, not to be appeased save by havoc, and generally by the killing of somebody else than themselves.

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James Baldwin:

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

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Tim Jackson:

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us.

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Salman Rushdie:

The responsibility for violence lies with those who perpetrate it.

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Kerry Greenwood, in the voice of Dr. MacMillan:

‘Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about. Beware of the living.

(Kerry Greenwood makes words dance.)

Greenwood, Kerry, Cocaine Blues in Introducing the Honourable Phryne Fisher,
a trilogy (Scottsdale, AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, 2011), p. 47

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Mark Shields:

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.

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Guy Debord:

The Mafia is not an outsider in this world; it is perfectly at home. Indeed, in the integrated spectacle it stands as the model of all advanced commercial enterprises.

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J. William Fulbright:

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

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Hal Linden:

I hadn’t really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.

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Barry Goldwater:

When you say “radical right” today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

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David Rockwell:

I don’t think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that’s frozen in time. I’m more interested in transitions.

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Glenn Gould:

Behind every silver lining, there’s a cloud.

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Abbie Hoffman:

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

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Amy Tan:

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you’re in control.

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Dagen McDowell:

Silence is accepting the unacceptable when it comes from anybody.

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Kerry Thornley:

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

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Alberto Manguel:

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

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