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Ben Fountain:

Nobody ever came to America with a starry-eyed dream of working for starvation wages.

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Isaac Asimov:

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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Hunter S. Thompson:

In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

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Benjamin Franklin:

Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.

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Robert K. Merton:

The extreme emphasis upon the accumulation of wealth as a symbol of success in our society militates against the completely effective control of institutionally regulated modes of acquiring a fortune.

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Robert Ellis, in the voice of Dexter Franklin:

Like the man says, money talks. The only trouble is all mine ever says is good-bye.

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Wendy Kaminer:

If we all don’t enjoy the same rights, then no one enjoys any rights at all; some of us merely enjoy privilege.

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Nell Irvin Painter:

The whole point of defining races is mostly to put people down . . . .

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John Dalberg Acton:

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

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Voltaire:

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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Calvin Coolidge:

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

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Booker T. Washington:

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

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Honore de Balzac:

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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Jeffrey Kluger:

Vaccines save lives; fear endangers them. It’s a simple message parents need to keep hearing.

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Henry Miller:

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

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Maimonides:

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

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Thomas Paine:

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

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Erma Bombeck:

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

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Rosa Parks:

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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Tom Robbins:

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it’s the cyanide.

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