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Antisthenes:

It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.

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Will Carlton:

Thanksgiving-day, I fear,
If one the solemn truth must touch,
Is celebrated, not so much
To thank the Lord for blessings o’er,
As for the sake of getting more!

(Don’t ask me why the formatting went screwy. I do not know.)

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Nina Fedoroff:

The influence of a science adviser is only as good as ears open to that science advice.

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Alfred Lunt:

The secret of my success? I speak in a loud clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

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Charlotte Bronte:

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.

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Ricky Gervais:

Proper stupidity is fascinating.

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Branch Rickey:

Luck is the residue of design.

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William Gilbert:

Man is nature’s sole mistake.

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Richard Roundtree:

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

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Andrew Grove:

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

Read more »

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

I don’t think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live.

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Dorothy Thompson:

No people ever recognize their dictator in advance. He never stands for election on the platform of dictatorship. He always represents himself as the instrument — the Incorporated National Will.

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Seneca the Elder:

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen; this law is universal to the whole human race.

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Lionel Shriver:

Reality doesn’t have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

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Harry Shearer:

You know what I call early adopters? Beta testers.

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Alf Landon:

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don’t think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

Afterthought:

Ya think?

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David Lloyd George:

All down history nine-tenths of mankind have been grinding the corn for the remaining tenth, and been paid with the husks and bidden to thank God they had the husk.

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Robert B. Parker, in the voice of Susan Silverman:

Being tough means looking straight at something ugly and saying, “That’s ugly; I’ll have to find a way to deal with it.” And doing so.

Parker, Robert B., Sixkill (New York: Putnam’s, 2011), p. 89

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Dwight Eisenhower:

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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William Golding:

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

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