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Heinrich Heine:

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

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Isaac D’Israeli:

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

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Niels Bohr:

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.

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William Gaddis:

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

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Carl Schurz:

The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, “My country, right or wrong.” In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

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Ben Hecht:

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

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David Frost:

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.

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Ian Fleming:

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn’t arrive.

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Elmore Leonard:

If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it.

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Euripides:

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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Victor Borge:

Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

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Rafi Silver, in the voice of Qasim Naasir:

Fear often makes us do things we shouldn’t.

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Bob Cesca:

We are all now Stormy Daniels. We’re getting checks from Donald Trump.

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Bill James:

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

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David Dayan Fisher, in the voice of Trent Kort, regarding “smart” home devices:

Not much point for the CIA to bug people anymore if they are going to bug themselves.

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Finley Peter Dunne:

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

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Pythagoras:

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

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Stanley Milgram:

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

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Sidney Buchman:

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

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Larry Gelbart:

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

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