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Benjaminn Spock:

People have said, “You’ve turned your back on pediatrics.” I said, “No. It took me until I was in my 60s to realize that politics was a part of pediatrics.”

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Charles Darwin:

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

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Frank Herbert:

Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you a cover up. Real boats rock.

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Napoleon Bonaparte:

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

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Friedrich Schiller:

Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.

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Virgil:

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

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D. H. Lawrence:

Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

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T. E. Lawrence:

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one.

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Annie Lane:

Idle hands are the devil’s workshop, especially when they’re holding a smartphone.

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John Wesley:

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

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Marilyn Monroe:

In Hollywood, a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hair-do.

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Carolyn Hax:

. . . idiocy is a condition with tragically few remedies.

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Thomas Robert Dewar:

If we are here to help others, I often wonder what the others are here for.

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Walter Lippmann:

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

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David Carr:

We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.

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Voltaire:

The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.

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Homer:

(Zeus, speaking to the Council of Olympians) See now, how many men lay blame upon us gods for what is after all nothing but their own folly.

Butler, Samuel, trans., The Iliad and the Odyssey (San Diego: Canterbury Classics, 2011), p. 376.

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John Steinbeck:

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

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Andy Rooney:

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

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Edgar Cayce:

Don’t feel sorry for self–that’s the best way to condemn, for you condemn everyone else.

Reading number 3527-1

H/T Susan.

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