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Ken Kesey:

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

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Ameen Rihani:

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

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Bob Cesca:

Make politics boring again.

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John HOpe Franklin:

If the house is to be set in order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past.

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Which is precisely why so many of the New Secesh are attempting (again) to erase the past.

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Honore de Balzac:

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

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Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:

Forget Vegas and Atlantic City. Wall Street is the ultimate casino.

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John Stuart Mill:

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

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Jesse Owens:

Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

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John Kenneth Galbraith:

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette:

I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

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Salmon Rushdie:

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

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Henry Rollins:

More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.

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Paddy Chayefsky:

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Afterthought:

I wonder what he would thought about “social” media.

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Jamelle Hill:

No problem in the history of humankind has ever gotten solved by evading it.

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Camillo di Cavour:

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

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Ian Rooney, in the voice of Cec Drury:

Well, sir, my father used to say that golf was a waste of good farmland.

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To be clear, I got nothing against golf. I don’t play, but I understand the fascination. It’s like pool (indeed, I once had a pool table): it’s not you against the other players, it’s you against the ball. But I still think it’s great line.

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William D. Andrews, through the voice of Julie Williamson:

Ignorance, she had come to understand, was no bar to his pronouncement of truths . . . .

Andrews, Willam D., Mapping Murder (Yarmouth, ME: Islandport Press, 2017) p. 44>

Aside:

No, Donald Trump is not a figure in the story.

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Paul Samuelson:

Good questions outrank easy answers.

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Theodore Roosevelt:

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

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Andy Rooney:

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

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