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Walt Kelly:

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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T. E. Lawrence:

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.

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Rudyard Kipling:

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.

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Michael Crichton:

Be cautious around anyone who creates proselytizing followers.

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O. Henry:

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man’s hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn’t take it any other way.

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Sophie Tucker:

I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Believe me, honey, rich is better.

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Frederick Douglass:

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

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Andy Rooney:

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that’s why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

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Charlotte Whitton:

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

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Margaret Chase Smith:

Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism:
The right to criticize;
The right to hold unpopular beliefs;
The right to protest;
The right of independent thought.

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Kerry Greenwood:

I had always stared into the faces of known monsters, trying to find something in the shape of the face, the expression, the eyes, which told me that this was the man who had shoved the Jews of Salonika into trains and sent then off to dreadful death. Every day, for weeks, until he ran out of Jews. I had never found it in Nazis. They just looked like people. It was the most frightening thing about them.

Humanity ain’t inherently humane. That’s why hate sells.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is a fool.

Addendum, Later That Same Day:

This is creepier than a room full of caterpillars.

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Sholem Asch:

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

Aside:

This is what differentiates “writing” from “content.”

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Evelyn Waugh:

I think there’s almost nothing I can’t excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

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Isaac Asimov:

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.

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Carl von Clausewitz:

Politics is the womb in which war develops — where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

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Adam Smith:

Bounty and hospitality very seldom lead to extravagance; though vanity almost always does.

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Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington:

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

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S. J. Perelman:

I have no truck with lettuce, cabbage, and similar chlorophyll. Any dietitian will tell you that a running foot of apple strudel contains four times the vitamins of a bushel of beans.

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John Maynard Keynes:

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

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