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Barry Goldwater:

When you say “radical right” today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party away from the Republican Party, and make a religious organization out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

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David Rockwell:

I don’t think of myself as a brand. Branding to me feels like a position or identity that’s frozen in time. I’m more interested in transitions.

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Glenn Gould:

Behind every silver lining, there’s a cloud.

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Abbie Hoffman:

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

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Amy Tan:

I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you’re in control.

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Dagen McDowell:

Silence is accepting the unacceptable when it comes from anybody.

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Kerry Thornley:

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?

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Alberto Manguel:

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

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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.

(Link fixed.)

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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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