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Rex Stout:

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person.

Stout, Rex, The Rubber Band (with The Red Box), (New York: Bantam, 2009) p. 44

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Antoine François Prévost:

Do you really think one can be truly loving when one is short of bread?

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Shelby Steele:

(T)hough fear always seeks a thousand justifications, none is ever good enough, and the problems we run from only remain to haunt us.

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Martin Buber:

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

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Henry George:

There are people into whose heads it never enters to conceive of any better state of society than that which now exists.

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Hector Berlioz:

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

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Dick Francis:

Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.

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Barbara Murray, in the voice of Denise Dumont:

The secret is in the appearance. As long as the packaging looks expensive, nobody cares what’s inside.

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William James:

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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Learned Hand:

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

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Clive Bell:

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

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Hunter S. Thompson:

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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David Spade, in the voice of Dennis Finch:

People believe anything, no matter how cuckoo, as long it’s what they want to believe.

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Baron d’Holbach:

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

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Tom Baker:

The Old Testament is my favourite science fantasy reading.

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Charlotte Bronte:

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

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Jeffrey Kluger:

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can’t therefore argue that the net doesn’t exist. Just ask the fish.

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Alexis de Tocqueville:

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

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Demosthenes:

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

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Tom Clancy:

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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