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Phillips Brooks:

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

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Chez Pazienda:

It’s the “error of the feels”: What you feel must be true. No, what you feel is . . . subjective and meaningless.

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Arthur Conan Doyle:

What men are, and what men profess to be, are very wide asunder.

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Abigail Adams:

What we wish, we are very apt to believe.

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Jean Kerr:

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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Marquise du Deffand:

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I’m afraid of them.

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Tennessee Williams:

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

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Quentin Crisp:

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.

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Eddie Murphy:

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

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Elizabeth Drew:

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

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Arthur Conan Doyle:

What was the benefit of a law written upon fair parchment, if there were no officers to enforce it?

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Sam Houston:

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

Plus ca change.

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Umberto Eco:

To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

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H. P. Lovecraft:

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

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Neil Simon:

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven’t been born yet.

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Homer:

(Odysseus to Telemachus) . . . the sight of arms sometimes tempts people to use them.

Butler, Samuel, trans., The Iliad and the Odyssey (San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2011), p. 577.

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Colin Kaepernick:

I don’t understand what’s un-American about fighting for liberty and justice for everybody, for the equality this country says it stands for.

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Salman Rushdie:

Fundamentalism isn’t about religion, it’s about power.

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Voltaire:

Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.

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