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John Hodgman:

If cats had a right to privacy, there would be no Facebook, and thus we might still have a functioning democracy.

Hodgman, John, “Bonus Advice from John Hodgman.” New York Times Magazine, August 12, 2018, p 16

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Yogi Berra:

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

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David Gross:

I strongly believe that the fundamental laws of nature are not emergent phenomena.

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Bobby Orr:

When you’re young, you don’t realize the sacrifices that people are making for you.

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Peter Drucker:

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

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Hubert Humphrey:

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

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Johnny Lee Miller, as Sherlock Holmes:

One impossible task at a time, please.

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Michelle Obama:

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

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Angela Rye:

I am not interested in trying to convince and change the mind of a bigot.

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Katherine Boo:

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

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Susan Rice:

The U.S. cannot go it alone simply when it is convenient.

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Dave Sim:

Everyone is normal until you get to know them.

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Leonard Goldberg, in the voice of Joanna Blalock, the daughter of Sherlock Holmes. :

I see what everyone else sees, but I think what no one else has thought.

Goldberg, Leonard, A Study in Treason (New York: Minotaur, 2018), p. 11.

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George Eliot:

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

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Susan Griffin:

Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

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P. D. James:

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren’t credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

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Alfred Adler:

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

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Henrik Ibsen:

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

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Plutarch:

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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John Fugelsang:

I was caring for a toddler while my country was electing one.

In an Interview with Bob Cesca. Free download, login may be required.

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