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W. Somerset Maugham:

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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David Ogilvy:

Readers travel so fast they don’t stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

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Jules Verne:

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

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Julia Child:

Noncooks think it’s silly to invest two hours’ work in two minutes’ enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so is the ballet.

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Edward R. Murrow:

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

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Walter Lippmann:

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

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Lawrence Lessig:

It’s a bumper sticker culture. People have to get it like that, and if they don’t, if it takes three seconds to make them understand, you’re off their radar screen. Three seconds to understand, or you lose. This is our problem.

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Mel Brooks:

If presidents can’t do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

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John Wooden:

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

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Ashleigh Brilliant:

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I’m right.

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Ursula K. Le Guin:

There are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

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Langston Hughes:

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller:

Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.

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Margaret Chase Smith:

The United States Senate has long enjoyed worldwide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world. But recently that deliberative character has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

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William James:

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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Jack London:

. . . I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.

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Saki:

All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren’t respectable live beyond other people’s. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.

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Thomas Carlyle:

Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.

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C. Northcote Parkinson:

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

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