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Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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Douglas Adams:

I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.

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Malcolm Forbes:

A bore: Someone who persists in holding to his own views after we have enlightened him with ours.

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Emma Goldman:

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

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Dorothy Parker:

His ignorance was an Empire State Building of ignorance. You had to admire it for its size.

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William Ralph Inge:

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours.

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Molly Ivins:

Politics in this country isn’t about left and right; it’s about up and down. The few are screwing the many.

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Mark Twain:

Why shoudn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to stick to the possibilities.

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Raymond Chandler:

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

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I wonder what he would say about twits and the Zuckerborg.

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John Dewey:

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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Mel Brooks:

We’re going to die anyway. And because of that, let’s have a merry journey, and shout about how light is good and dark is not. What we should do is not future ourselves so much. We should now ourselves more. ‘Now thyself’ is more important than ‘Know thyself.’

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D. H. Lawrence:

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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Mark Twain:

The easy confidence with which I know another man’s religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

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Henry Steele Commager:

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises, and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order on it.

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Joseph Conrad:

The way of even the most justifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

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Victor Hugo:

God made only water, but man made wine.

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Barbara Brown Taylor:

As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.

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Samuel Butler:

Men of science, so far as I have observed them, are apt in their fear of jumping to a conclusion as to forget that there is such a thing as jumping away from one.

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Stephen King:

The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.

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Thurgood Marshall:

Lawlessness is lawlessness. Anarchy is anarchy is anarchy. Neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

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