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H. Rider Haggard:

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

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Anton Chekhov:

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

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William T. Sherman:

It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

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Jose Ortega y Casset:

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

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Robert Green Ingersoll:

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

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Flannery O’Connor:

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

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Guy de Maupassant:

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship’s captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

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John Dewey:

The phrase “think for one’s self” is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one’s self, it isn’t thinking.

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Thurgood Marshall:

I’m the world’s original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

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Noam Chomsky:

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

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John Osborne:

I wish you’d stop yelling, I can’t hear myself shout.

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Anne Sullivan:

It’s queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!

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Kerry Greenwood:

If the Lord had meant for us to wear pointy shoes, he’d have put our big toe in the middle.

I may had said it before, but I shall say it again.

Kerry Greenwood makes words dance.

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Ogden Nash:

Commitments the voters don’t know about can’t hurt you.

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Robert Byrne:

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

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Theodore Roosevelt:

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer Present or Not Guilty.

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E. B. White:

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

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Kerry Greenwood, who makes words dance:

. . . as thin as an election promise.

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Michel de Montaigne:

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

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Philip K. Dick:

Certainly it constitutes bad news if the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.

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