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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.

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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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Indro Montanelli:

The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

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Eugene V. Debs:

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

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Christine Pelosi:

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

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John Moffatt, in the voice of Hercule Poirot:

The wages of sin are said to be death, but sometimes the wages of sin seem to be luxury.

From episode 5 of the BBC production of Agatha Christie’s Taken at the Flood, which you can find at the Old Time Radio Theater, linked in the sidebar, over there ——->.

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Isaac Asimov:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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Stuart Langridge:

Every time someone talks about making something “exclusive,” what they are actually doing working out how to exclude some people from having it. That’s what “exclusive” means.

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Phoebe Atwood Taylor, in the voice of Asey Mayo:

Funny. Civ’lization doesn’t seem like such a swell thing when you’re in it, but when you ain’t got it, it begins t’ appear like there was somethin’ in it after all.

Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, Death Lights a Candle (Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 2005) p. 125

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Audrey Hepburn:

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

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Frank Zappa:

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra, as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

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Hypatia:

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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Pythagoras:

No man is free who cannot control himself.

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Bradley Denton:

A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.

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Sam Rayburn:

You’ll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don’t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

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Andrew Hutchison:

During the election, Prime Minister Harper ended some of his speeches with the words “God bless Canada.” Indeed, the prophet Isaiah says that God blesses you when you “share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house” (Isaiah 58.7). We urge the Prime Minister to spend tax dollars now in a way that will bring the homeless poor into their own house, and allow them the dignity of sharing their bread with others.

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Tacitus:

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

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Loretta Young:

I’m not sure the public knows what it wants.

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David Jason, in the voice of Detective Inspector Frost:

They can put a man on the moon, but they still can’t stop your nose running, can they?

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