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Hyman Rickover:

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

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Zechariah Chafee:

Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.

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Maggie Gallagher:

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

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Oriana Fallaci:

Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called “objectivity.” Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

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Chris Potter, in the voice of Det. Sgt. Tom Ryan:

A lie is not a lie when you know I’m lying.

For some fool reason, this made me think of someone in the news.

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Stan Lee:

Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.

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Robert Runcie:

Those who dare to interpret God’s will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

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Alexander Hamilton:

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

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Martin Firrell:

When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.

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Kirby Page:

In former days the struggle for existence was chiefly a struggle against nature, today it is primarily a struggle against other human beings.

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Roger Moore, in the voice of Simon Templar:

All salesman are psychologists. They have to be. They have to know human nature in order to sell.

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Jim Hightower:

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

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Robert Wilson Lynd:

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

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Max Eastman:

I omit from consideration here the fact that people who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral, but in favor of the status quo.

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Livy:

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Afterthought:

But will anyone pay attention?

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Upton Sinclair:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

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Terry Winograd:

Seekers after the glitter of intelligence are misguided in trying to cast it in the base metal of computing.

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Rex Stout:

The avoidance of idiocy should be the primary and constant concern of every intelligent person.

Stout, Rex, The Rubber Band (with The Red Box), (New York: Bantam, 2009) p. 44

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Antoine François Prévost:

Do you really think one can be truly loving when one is short of bread?

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Shelby Steele:

(T)hough fear always seeks a thousand justifications, none is ever good enough, and the problems we run from only remain to haunt us.

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