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Alvin Toffler:

Profits, like sausages… are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.

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Frederick the Great:

If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one of them would remain in the army.

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Maximillien Robespierre:

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.

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Rebecca West:

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

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Rex Stout:

I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette:

It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship.

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Ted Sorenson:

A nation without credibility and moral authority cannot lead, because no one will follow.

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George Bernard Shaw:

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

In related news, Van is back and QOTD.org is up and running.

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Joseph Butler:

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

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Larry Flynt:

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There’s always a hidden agenda.

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Samuel P. Huntington:

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

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Jon Stewart:

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

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John Guare:

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

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Thomas More:

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

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Junius:

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

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Tracey Ullman:

It’s sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

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Richie Asburn:

I wish I’d known early what I had to learn late.

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Jen Kirkman:

Parenthood can be very rewarding, but let’s face it, so are margaritas at the adults-only pool.

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Joe Louis:

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

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Terry Eagleton:

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

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