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Elihu Root:

The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream.

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James Thurber:

There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

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M. C. Escher:

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it’s in my basement… let me go upstairs and check.

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Alan Davies (as Jonathan Creek):

In a country where Nancy Reagan’s horoscope can affect foreign policy, you should keep an open mind.

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Americans may write the best detective stories, but the British write the best mystery stories.

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Tom Bodett:

In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.

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Stephen Jay Gould:

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

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Mark Twain:

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

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Jon Krakauer:

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

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David Janssen:

TV is my sleeping pill.

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Hannah More:

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

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Rex Stout (in the voice of Archie Goodwin):

. . . the doorbell rang, and I went to the front door and opened up, and found confronting me a vacuum cleaner salesman. Or anyhow he should have been. He had that bright, friendly, uninhibited look.

Stout, Rex, The Silent Speaker (New York: Bantam, 1958), p. 19

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Lewis Mumford:

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

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One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

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Kelly Evans:

Price is what you pay, but value, as Warren Buffett has observed, is what you get.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

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Nikolai Gogol:

You can’t imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

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Julien Brenda:

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

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Mark Twain:

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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Anne Bronte:

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it.

Stout, Rex, Before Midnight (New York: Bantam, 1957), p. 99

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