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Samuel Horsley:

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

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Robert Goldsborough:

. . . too often, what we refer to as humility is only false modesty strutting on the parade ground.

Goldsborough, Robert, The Bloodied Ivy (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), p. 167

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Jules Feiffer:

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

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Jack Horner:

Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges – it’s more like apples and sewing machines.

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David Brin:

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

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Walter Annenberg:

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

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Lao-Tzu:

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

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George Jessel:

The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn’t stop until you get up to deliver a speech.

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Charles Henry Parkhurst:

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

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Sam Brown:

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

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Denis Diderot:

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

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L. Sprague de Camp:

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

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Liz Smith:

You can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do.

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Nancy Banks Smith:

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone’s thumb.

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Alexander Hamilton:

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

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Joan Sutherland:

I’m somewhat horrified because I don’t think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don’t’ even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don’t know where one place is from another.

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Nick Clooney:

We didn’t defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

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Norbert Weiner:

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

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Dick Francis:

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

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Thomas Pynchon:

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

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