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Kin Hubbard:

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn’t have as many monuments to unveil.

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S. S. van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright) in the voice of Philo Vance:

To be sure, patience is sort of a last resort–a practice to adopt when there’s nothing else to do.

Van Dine, S. S., The Benson Murder Case in a double volume
with The Canary Murder Case (London: Leonaur.com), p. 89.

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Marcus Terentius Varro:

No sick man’s monstrous dream can be so wild that some philosopher won’t say it’s true.

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Francisco Luís Gomes:

What use is equality in theory and in law, if it does not penetrate into our customs?

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H. P. Lovecraft:

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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William Greider:

Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.

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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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George Herman:

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.

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Heraclitus:

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

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Kenneth Clark:

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

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Malcolm X:

The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

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Pierre Beaumarchais:

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

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Ethan Allen:

While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.

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Ogden Nash:

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave
When they think that their children are naive.

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Sojourner Truth:

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

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Leo Durocher:

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

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Peter Senge:

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

(Missing attribution fixed.)

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S. S. Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright), who could say much in few words when the muse struck:

Nature had endowed Miss La Fosse with many of its arts, and those that Nature had omitted, Miss La Fosse had herself supplied.

Van Dine, S. S., The Canary Murder Case, in a double volume with
The Benson Murder Case (London: Leonaur.com, 2010), p. 344

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Auguste Rodin:

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

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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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