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Fred M. Vinson:

Whatever theoretical merit there may be to the argument that there is a “right” to rebellion against dictatorial governments is without force where the existing structure of the government provides for peaceful and orderly change.

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Susan Sontag:

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens — and real diseases are useful material. Epidemic diseases usually elicit a call to ban the entry of foreigners, immigrants. And xenophobic propaganda has always depicted immigrants as bearers of disease . . . .

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Plutarch:

It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief – the other contempt.

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Lee Trevino:

I never think of yesterday. Can’t do anything about it.

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Thomas Dewar:

Minds are like parachutes: they only function when open.

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Liu Shahe:

Being misunderstood by someone is vexation. Being misunderstood by everyone is tragedy.

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Lillian Hellman:

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

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Francis John McConnell:

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

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Nick Tosches:

Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.

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Kerry Greenwood:

A moment’s acquaintance was enough to convince her that Mrs. Freeman would not know anything that she did not want to know.

Greenwood, Kerry, The Green Mill Murder (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007), p. 31.

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Lou Ferrigno:

Computers can bully us. A slow and unreliable system will bring even the toughest soul to their knees as they find themselves completely defenseless against the erratic whims of their rogue machine.

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Nile Kinnick:

Too much time is spent getting ready to live and making a living and not enough in living dynamically and enjoyably right now. The most important thing – and I am sure I am right – is to maintain an active, alert interest in everything going on about you.

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Elmer Davis:

The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.

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Demosthenes:

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

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Honore de Balzac:

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

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Steven Weber:

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game – the soldiers – into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

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Walter Kaufmann:

The most obvious failure of organized religions is surely that almost all of them have made a mockery of what their founders taught.

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Herbert Butterfield:

But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness—each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked—each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity.

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Herodotus:

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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Epicurus:

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

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