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Fred Allen:

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

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Jim Hightower:

The water won’t clear up until we get the hogs out of the creek.

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Willa Cather:

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

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Ricky Gervais:

There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything. They don’t create anything.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky:

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

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Paul Claudel:

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

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Robert Quillen:

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

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Krista Tippett:

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

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Auguste Comte:

To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.

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Antoine de Saint Exupéry:

Every nation is selfish and every nation considers its selfishness sacred.

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Robert B. Parker, in the voice of Spenser:

When in doubt, do something, and hope that if you keep doing it you’ll come to understand what it is.

Parker, Robert B., Playmates (New York, Berkley, 1990) p. 85

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Bernard Lown:

Every historic period has had its Cassandras. Our era is the first in which prophecies of doom stem from objective scientific analyses.

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Thomas Clarkson:

There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.

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Tommy Douglas:

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

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Indro Montanelli:

Men do not know how to appreciate or measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

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Kinky Friedman:

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

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Quentin Crisp:

Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne.

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Richard Wright:

Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life.

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Billy Crystal:

Change is such hard work.

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James Whistler:

I can’t tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

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