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Henry David Thoreau:

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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Roald Dahl:

It was all this, I think, that made me begin to have doubts about religion and even about God. If this person, I kept telling myself, was one of God’s chosen salesmen on earth, then there must be something very wrong about the whole business.

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Dorothy Parker:

There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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Goodman Ace:

TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing’s well done.

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Ken Burns:

I subscribe to William Faulkner’s’ view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

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P. D. James:

She had always believed–somewhat to her surprise–that God existed but was unconvinced that he was moved by the worship of man or by the tribulations and extraordinary vagaries and antics of the creation He had set in being.

James, P. D., The Murder Room (New York: Knopf, 2003) p. 49

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin:

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

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Clarence Darrow:

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.

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Jean de la Bruyere:

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

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David Jason, in the voice of Inspector Frost:

Conspiracy theories are always flavor of the month.

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A. E. Housman:

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

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George Washington:

To secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each and yet provide for the interest and safety for all — individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.

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Tacitus:

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

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Lemuel K. Washburn:

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

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Gerard Horan, in the voice of Ray Butler:

The thing is, once you start with a lie, there’s somehow no going back, is there?

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Sophie Tucker:

I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.

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David Jason, in the voice of Inspector Frost:

The more you know about people, the more you appreciate dogs.

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Ben Jonson:

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

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Hunter S. Thompson:

The slow-rising central horror of “Watergate” is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.

Q. E. D.

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Lucille Ball:

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

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