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Jack Nickell:

People do not scrutinize that which they are glad to hear.

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Audrey Hepburn:

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself … All of which I’ve earned a living doing.

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Mark Williams, in the voice of Father Brown:

Sometimes we don’t notice that which we see every day.

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Nicolas Chamfort:

Having lots of ideas doesn’t mean you’re clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you’re a good general.

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Paul Harvey:

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

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Baruch Spinoza:

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

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Paul Wellstone:

If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.

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Clare McConnell, in the voice of Effie Newsome:

I’m a lawyer, George. I don’t require explanation. I just need reasonable doubt.

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Greig Pickhaver:

To understand our place in the world, we need to make sense of our past.

Afterthought:

Those who would prevent us from making sense of our past wish to lead us into a senseless future.

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Jeremy Bentham:

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

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Kerry Greenwood:

If you are not scared then there is no merit to being brave.

Greenwood, Kerry, Death at Victoria Dock (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2007) p. 149

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Samuel Johnson:

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

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J. Maarten Troost:

It is a remarkably easy thing to do, pointing out the faults of others and suggesting remedies or courses of action in an argumentative and pedantic sort of way, and I am still amazed that there are many people in the American media who are paid very big money to do this.

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Isaac Newton:

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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Patrick Swayze:

The way to screw up somebody’s life is to give them what they want.

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Pamela Meyer:

Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump’s case, lies.

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Kerry Greenwood, in the voices of Phryne Fisher and Jillian Henderson:

Phryne: I’m shocked. Have you no regard for the truth?

Jillian: If you had entered the law, you would know that truth is a very dicey quality. “What is truth?” said Pilate, and I have always thought he must have been a solicitor.

Greenwook, Kerry, Flying Too High, in the collection Introducing the
Honourable Phryne Fisher
(Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2011) p. 239.

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Niccolo Machiavelli:

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

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J. D. Salinger:

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

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Adam Smith:

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

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