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Eugene O’Neill:

One may not give one’s soul to a devil of hate — and remain forever scatheless.

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Arthur C. Clarke:

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

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Walter Annenberg:

I didn’t want to be greedy. It’s a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Afterthought:

It was a more innocent time.

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David Garrick:

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

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David Brinkley:

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

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Marshall McLuhan:

I’ve always been careful never to predict anything that had (sic) not already happened.

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R. H. Tawney:

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Archie Goodwin:

I never try to do any deep thinking when I’m driving; the thinking gets you nowhere and the driving might get you where you would rather not be . . . .

Stout, Rex, The Father Hunt (New York: Bantam, 1993), p. 68.

Aside:

Texting hadn’t been invented when those words were penned.

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Charles Kettering:

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.

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Daniel Bell:

The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

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Terry Eagleton:

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Archie Goodwin:

. . . impetuosity is a virtue only when delay is dangerous . . . .

Stout, Rex, Too Many Clients (New York, Bantam, 1971), p. 32.

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Maury Chaykin, as Nero Wolfe:

Christmas as celebrated is merely an excuse for wretched excess.

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Taylor Caldwell:

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.:

People do what you inspect, not what you expect.

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Henry Adams:

I have got so far as to lose the distinction between right and wrong. Isn’t that the first step in politics?

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Tertullian:

Of little worth is the recommendation which has for its prop the defamation of another.

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James Dean:

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

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Cal Ripken, Jr.:

I don’t know how everyone else feels, but I’m exhausted.

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Rex Stout:

Besides, it was always the case that if and when super-egotists finally get it, they get it good and hard.

Stout, Rex, The Broken Vase (New York: Bantam, 1982), p.88.

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