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Leonard Goldberg:

Everyone is an idle gossiper if the gossip is interesting enough.

Goldberg, Leonard, The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Minotaur, 2017) p. 88.

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Karen Armstrong:

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

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Blaise Pascal:

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

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Paul Valéry:

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

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H. G. Wells:

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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Voltaire:

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

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Winston Churchill:

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

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George Danton:

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

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Craig Venter:

Moving forward in science is as much unwinding the distorted thinking of the past as it is putting a clearer idea on the table.

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Kenneth More, in the voice of Father Brown:

Now, there are men who want power, and the idealism of others becomes the means by which they hope to attain it. Such men are dangerous.

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Sidney Greenstreet, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

Why must the world be in such a rush today?

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Andre Gide:

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

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Bergen Evans:

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

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Otto von Bismarck:

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

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Livy:

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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Theodore Roosevelt:

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.

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Bill Nye:

The Earth is just a speck of sand in the universe. And there’s no cavalry coming over the hill to rescue it.

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Carl Van Doren:

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

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John Hay:

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

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George Santayana:

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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