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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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Kenneth Clark:

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

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John G. Azzopardi:

Experience can be merely the repetition of same error often enough.

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Marie Curie:

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

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Myrna Loy:

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Aside:

I wonder what she would have to say about “social” media?

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Car Jung:

The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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Juvenal:

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

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Erasmus:

Animals only follow their natural instincts; but man, unless he has experienced the influence of learning and philosophy, is at the mercy of impulses that are worse than those of a wild beast. There is no beast more savage and dangerous than a human being who is swept along by the passions of ambition, greed, anger, envy, extravagance, and sensuality.

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Frank Lloyd Wright:

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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Nathan Fillion:

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands – there’s really no substitute.

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Gene Kelly, in the voice of Jerry Mulligan:

Civilization has a natural resistance against improving itself.

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W. Edwards Deming:

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

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Louis Agassiz:

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell:

What a pity that he who steals a penny loaf should be hung, whilst he who steals thousands of the public money should be acquitted!

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Lou Reed:

I don’t like nostalgia unless it’s mine.

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H. G. Wells:

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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Ulysses S. Grant:

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

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Sarah Kendzior:

As scholars of authoritarianism have long advised, believe the autocrat when he speaks.

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Benjamin Disraeli:

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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Alison Bell, the voice of Adeline Campbell:

He was a consumate politician. Everything was about himself.

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