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Dick Gregory:

Everything we do we should look at in terms of millions of people who can’t afford it.

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Leonard Woolfe:

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

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Terri Apter:

Adolescence is society’s permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

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Fergus Hume:

Kindly Mrs. Pindle was the most innocent of mortals. All geese were swans to her.

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Jean Genet:

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

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Rex Stout:

He is a public-relations counselor–one of the various modern activities that are an insult to the dignity of man.

Stout, Rex, The Father Hunt (New York: Bantam Books, June 1969), p. 132

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Naomi Klein:

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

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Taylor Branch:

There are an awful lot of people who despise government precisely because it opened the door for common citizenship for people of all races and all natures in the United States.

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Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould:

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.

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Anais Nin:

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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H. P. Lovecraft:

From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.

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Gifford Pinchot:

Innovations never happen as planned.

(Link fixed.)

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Lady Randolph Churchill:

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

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Frank Harris:

The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration… Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.

Aside:

Bennett Cerf once said of one of Frank Harris’s anecdotes that “he recounted it with the assurance of one who could not possibly have been present.”

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Denis Diderot:

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

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Len Deighton:

In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn’t work very well.

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Jimmy Stewart:

I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I’m happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

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Gwilym Lee, as DS Charlie Nelson:

Think of all the stupid things you did when you were a kid, you did them because you were with your mates, egging each other on.

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Mike Honda:

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

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Lionel Barrymore:

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

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