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Rex Stout:

. . . rancor is a pimple on the brain.

Stout, Rex, “Eeny Meeny Murder Mo” in Homicide Trinity (New York: Viking Press, Bantam Edition, 1966) p, 14

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Haile Selassie:

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

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Reggie Jackson:

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don’t care.

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Ogden Nash:

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

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Quintus Ennius:

They hate whom they fear.

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Rex Stout:

Avery Ballou: “Is this room bugged?”

Nero Wolfe: “Confound it, it will soon be impossible to converse anywhere about anything.”

Stout, Rex, Death of a Doxy (New York: Viking Press, 1966), p. 60
(verbatim, but slightly rearranged from the original to omit exposition)

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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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Warren Spahn:

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they’re looking for and one to cross them up.

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Lewis Tappan:

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

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H. L. Mencken:

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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Daniel J. Boorstin:

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

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Philo:

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

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W. Edwards Deming:

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

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Rene Magritte:

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

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Paul Tillich:

Boredom is rage spread thin.

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Katherine Hepburn:

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

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Rex Stout:

Like every argument I ever had a part in, nobody changed anybody.

Stout, Rex, Death of a Dude (New York, The Viking Press, 1969), p. 121

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Theodore Roosevelt:

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president… is morally treasonable to the American public.

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Jacques Barzun:

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

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Soren Kierkegaard:

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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