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Quentin Crisp:

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.

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Frank Maxwell, in the voice of Rector:

All men have enemies. It’s your friends of whom you must be wary.

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P. D. James:

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

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Marcus Garvey:

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

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Leo Chavez and Dan Simmons:

It’s not artificial intelligence. . . . It’s enhanced automation.

The relevent discussion takes place at about the one hour 20 minute mark.

(And, yeah, I”m behind on some the podcasts I regularly listen to.)

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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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Chauncey Depew:

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

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S.Z. Sakall, in the voice of Felix Bassenak:

Sometimes, if you shut up, maybe you learn something.

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Phoebe Atwood Taylor:

. . . old age is such a lovely excuse for not doing what you don’t want to do anyway.

Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, Figure Away (Woodstock, VT: Foul Play Press, 1991) p. 28.

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Virginia Woolf:

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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Bob Hope:

If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

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E. B. White:

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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Van Wyck Brooks:

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me… by newspapers and the Bible.

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John Byner, in the voice of Cotton Dunn:

A novice looks at a real estate ad and sees “ample parking.” I see “dirt front yard.”

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Jerry Coyne:

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

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Aleksandr Pushkin:

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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Mary Wollstonecraft:

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

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Alexis de Tocqueville:

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

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Robert Winston:

We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.

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Barbara Bain, in the voice of Prudence:

Oh, it’s a wonderful world if you can afford it.

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