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Tom Wolfe:

A cult is a religion with no political power.

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William Floyd:

The Bible has done more harm than any other book in the world.

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It’s not the Bible. It’s the persons who read it.

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Carol Anshew:

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

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John Locke:

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

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Lowell Thomas:

The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.

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Neil Postman:

In Russia, writers with serious grievances are arrested, while in America they are merely featured on television talk shows, where all that is arrested is their development.

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Ken Jennings:

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

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K. Eric Drexler:

Any powerful technology can be abused.

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George Henry Lewes:

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

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Bob Uecker:

Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.

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Isaac Asimov:

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ (‘I found it!’) but rather ‘hmm, that’s funny…’

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Zbigniew Brezinski:

[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

Special bonus quote from me:

Daylight savings time is bunk founded on a myth and perpetuated on a fraud.

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R. Austin Freeman:

Some fool has said that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing . . ., but it is a vast deal better than no knowledge.

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Quintus Tullius Cicero*:

During war, the laws are silent.

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*That’s the other Cicero.

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Harold Coffin:

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

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Maureen Reagan:

I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there.

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Peter Jennings:

I think you can be cynical about religion on occasion, and certainly skeptical about the degree to which some people use religion to manipulate other people.

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John Astin as Gomez Adams:

We are faced with a very serious problem. There is only one thing we can do.

Worry.

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Kenneth L. Pike:

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

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Johnny Weismuller:

How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?

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