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Andre Gide:

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

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Frédéric O’Brady, in the voice of Boris Turgoff:

Please, I’m an anarchist. All I believe in is nothing.

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

Only the man who knows too little knows too much.

Stout, Rex, The Golden Spiders (New York: Bantam, 1955) p. 10

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Hypatia:

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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David Ferguson:

These are f-bomb-inspiring times.

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Ronald Howard, in the voice of Sherlock Holmes:

When dealing with the occult, Watson, it is best to remember the natural phenomena come first.

By the way, if you can find Ronald Howard’s Sherlock Holmes television show on your streaming service, give it a look. It is indeed rather amusing, especially if you are a Sherlockian.

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Shirley MacLaine:

Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. It’s where all the fruit is.

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Alexander MacKenzie:

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

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Penn Jillette:

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don’t need religion.

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Jared Cohen:

We live in a world where all wars will begin as cyber wars… It’s the combination of hacking and massive, well-coordinated disinformation campaigns.

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Chuck Hagel:

I took an oath of office to the Constitution, I didn’t take an oath of office to my party or my president.

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Stanley Kubrick:

There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

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P. G. Wodehouse:

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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H. Rider Haggard:

I do not believe in violence; it is the last resort of fools.

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Confucius:

To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.

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Graham Jarvis, in the voice of Ben Drootin visiting an Old West theme town:

Do you believe people actually used to live like this? No running water. No electricity. What did they do for excitement with no TV?

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Emile Durkheim:

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.

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Pliny the Elder:

It is far from easy to determine whether she [Nature] has proved to man a kind parent or a merciless stepmother.

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Twm Morys:

While we’re still afraid of what we don’t understand, there will be monsters.

(Incorrect attribution correxed. Frankly–I do everything frankly–in this show it is rather difficult to know who is saying what.)

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D. H. Lawrence:

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

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