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Noah Webster:

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

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Jack London:

Affluence means influence.

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Doris Lessing:

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

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Kerry Greenwood, in Earthly Delights:

Civilization is as thin as cigarette paper.

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Denis Diderot:

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it./blockquote>

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Steve Martin:

If you’ve got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve got 71 cents left; But if you’ve got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve still got seventeen grand. There’s a math lesson for you.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.:

I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.

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Cullen Hightower:

A figment of the imagination is just a harmless illusion – unless you are victim of it.

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Burt Reynolds:

You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.

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Virgil:

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

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Edmund Burke:

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified of epidemical fanaticism, because of all enemies it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

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Lena Horne:

You have to be taught to be second class; you’re not born that way.

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Mardy Grothe:

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

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Shawnee Smith as Linda in Becker:

The great thing about intelligent people is they’re not that bright.

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John Kenneth Galbraith:

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

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Dorothy Parker:

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

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Raymond Chandler:

Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get.

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Thomas Robert Dewar:

A philosopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile.

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Rebecca West:

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: ‘It seemed a good idea at the time.

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Isabel Allende:

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

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