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Arnold M. Ludwig:

Although humans and baboons may fight among themselves, dominate others, and keep harems, only humans have the ability to give pious excuses for what they do.

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Mort Sahl:

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

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Harry S Truman:

It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose yours.

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Elijah Cummings:

Most people who are hating on you, they are not worried about where you are. They’re worried about where you’re going.

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Thucydides:

So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand.

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John Oliver:

In science, you don’t just get to cherry-pick the parts that justify what you were going to do anyway! That’s religion! You’re thinking of religion.

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Robert Walpole:

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

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Franz Kafka:

I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.

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William Ralph Inge:

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

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H. Rider Haggard:

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

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Fran Tarkenton:

Ignoring facts does not make them go away.

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Socrates:

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

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Confucius:

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

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Linus Pauling:

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.

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Kerry Greenwood, who makes words dance:

(His) view was that, if you were going to break vows, you should break them hard and repent afterwards.

Greenwood, Kerry, The Castlemaine Murders (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2006), p. 180.

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Bettany Hughes (discussing Socrates’s defense at his trial in ancient Athens):

The city that once fetishized freedom and freedom of speech could not tolerate the freedom to offend.

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Hermann Hesse:

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

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W. E. B. DuBois:

A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.

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Kerry Greenwood:

The more terrible the times, the more people gamble. Gambling gives them hope.

Greenwood, Kerry, The Castlemaine Murders (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2006), p. 113.

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Alfred North Whitehead:

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

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