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Marie Curie:

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

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Robert Staughton Lynd:

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

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Nora Ephron:

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

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Luc de Clapiers:

One can not be just if one is not humane.

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Harry Shearer in Le Show for August 4, 2019:

Ladies and gentlemen, the problem with this country, the United States, is that we just don’t have enough thoughts and prayers.

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Jonathan Swift:

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired . . . .

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Peter Steele:

I’m a big fan of the effects of alcohol.

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Frances Bacon:

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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Dag Hammarskjold:

It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

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Goodman Ace:

TV – a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium – we call it a medium because nothing’s well done.

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Gertrude Stein:

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

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Robert Goldsborough, in the voice of Nero Wolfe (Goldsborough has continued the Wolfe stories with the blessing of Rex Stout’s family):

Many people tend to believe everything that appears on a printed page, no matter how questionable the vehicle or how outrageous the statement.

Goldsborough, Robert, Death on an Art Collector (New York: MysteriousPress.com, 2019) p. 81

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Artemus Ward

I am not a politician, and my other habits are good, also.

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Jack London:

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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Fannie Hurst:

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

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Pete Seeger:

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.

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James P. Carse:

Belief systems thrive in circumstances of collision. They are energized by their opposites.

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Stacy Keach, as Mike Hammer:

As far as the media is concerned, the only good news is bad news. That’s why I prefer the sports page.

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Michel de Montaigne:

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

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Steve Allen:

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences.

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