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Terry Eagleton:

The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.

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Joseph Roux:

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

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Bill Bradley:

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

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Michael Palin:

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won’t be made safer by creating barriers between people.

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Harry S. Truman:

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

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Kerry Greenwood:

When will you learn . . . that inadvisable is not the same as undesirable.

Greenwood, Kerry, Murder in Montparnasse (Scottsdale, AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, 2005), p. 237

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John Updike:

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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Sheila Sim, as Miss Frayle in the Doctor Morelle mystery, “Act of Violence”:

It must be marvelous always to feel so sure you are right, and that the other person must be wrong.

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Jean de La Fontaine:

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

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Lisa Randall:

. . . when people try to use religion to address the natural world, science pushes back on it, and religion has to accommodate the results. Beliefs can be permanent, but beliefs can also be flexible. Personally, if I find out my belief is wrong, I change my mind. I think that’s a good way to live.

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Oskar Schindler:

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

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Richard Perle:

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

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Mark Pocan:

A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class.

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Phil Donahue:

To a journalist, good news is often not news at all.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero:

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

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Ulysses S. Grant:

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

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Sam Keen:

A society that trains us to specialize in making, doing, performing, and producing neglects to educate us in wonder and appreciation.

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John Rawls:

To each according to his threat advantage does not count as a principle of justice.

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Joseph Campbell:

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

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Bill Moyers:

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

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