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Henri Matisse:

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

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Scott Pelley:

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

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Linda Ronstadt:

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one’s illegal. They should just be able to come.

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Sidney Toler (as Charlie Chan):

To speak without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

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Gertrude Stein:

We are always the same age inside.

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Oscar Wilde:

True friends stab you in the front.

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Edmund Burke:

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

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Winston Churchill:

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

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Winston Churchill:

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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Alexis de Tocquiville:

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

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Ben Folds:

The press is like any business. It’s a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

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Holbrook Jackson:

No man is ever old enough to know better.

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Thomas Hardy:

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

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S. S. Van Dine:

Logic is the most perfect artificial means of arriving at a false conclusion.

Van Dine, S. S. (Willard Huntington Wright), The Garden Murder Mystery
in The Philo Vance Murder Cases, v. 5 (London: Leonaur, 2010), p. 62.

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Seneca the Younger:

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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Pierre Bayle:

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

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William Golding:

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

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Groucho Marx:

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

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S. S. Van Dine:

. . . there’s little that’s reasonable in this fantastic and ironical world . . . .

Van Dine, S. S. (Willard Huntington Wright), The Scarab Murder Case in
Philo Vance Mysteries, v. 3 (London: Leonaur, 2007), p. 216

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Buzz Burbank:

The reason the Bible says . . . “the meek shall inherit the earth”–that’s the only way they are going to get it.

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