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Peter Akroyd:

People are much more interesting than people realise.

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Rex Stout:

. . . a hole in the ice offers peril only to those who go skating.

Stout, Rex, Too Many Cooks (New York: Pyramid, 1963), p. 137

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Marquis De Custine:

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

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Linus Torvalds:

Intelligence is the ability to avoid doing work, yet getting the work done.

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Rex Stout:

Anyone has the privilege of offending who is willing to bear the odium.

Stout, Rex, Too Many Cooks (New York: Pyramid, 1963) p. 72

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Ellen Key:

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

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Michael J. Fox:

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

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Henry Adams:

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

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Rex Stout:

It came out a tie. Like the man who was trying to pull up an oak tree who finally quit and muttered, “You can’t pull me up either.”

Stout, Rex, Where There’s a Will (New York: Bantam, 1992), p. 81

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Davy Crockett:

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.

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Fred Astaire:

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower:

In most communities it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

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D. Elton Trueblood:

The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.

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Neil Abercrombie:

So there’s always been this clash between what is the public good – that which belongs to all of us in common – and what can be exploited for a private interest.

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Kevin Nealon:

Don’t play dead with a vulture. That’s exactly what they want.

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Gertrude Stein:

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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Richard Perle:

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Sound like any government you know?

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Anne Sullivan:

It’s queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

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Marlo Thomas:

Never face facts; if you do you’ll never get up in the morning.

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Vivienne Ming:

The tax on being different is massive.

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