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Herodotus:

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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Mark Twain:

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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Aldous Huxley:

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

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Thomas de Quincey:

The public is a bad guesser.

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Howard Bloom:

Individual perception untainted by others’ influence does not exist.

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Fergus Hume:

There are no ghosts except of a man’s own raising.

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Brigitte Bardot:

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

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William Pitt the Younger:

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

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Agatha Christie:

The world nowadays is rather like a mad nursery rime.

Christie, Agatha, A Three-Act Tragedy (New York: Berkley, 1984), p. 168.

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Terrence:

Extreme law is often extreme injustice.

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Flannery O’Connor:

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

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Theognis of Megara:

One finds many companions for food and drink, but in a serious business a man’s companions are few.

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Heinrich Heine:

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

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Lane Crothers:

Nothing quite makes you appreciate good government as much as having a bad one.

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D. Elton Trueblood:

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

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Walter Reuther:

There’s a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.

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Brian Dietzen, as Jimmy Palmer:

The only thing worse than being scared is being scared alone.

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Paul Farmer:

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven’t seen its heights but because I’ve seen its depths.

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Arnold Schoenberg:

Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value. . . . Unqualified judgment can at most claim to decide the market-value — a value that can be in inverse proportion to the intrinsic value.

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Oriana Fallaci:

Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called “objectivity.” Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

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