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Adam Smith:

A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him.

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Jean Kerr:

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.

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Clarence Darrow:

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

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Samuel Butler:

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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Alfred Adler:

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

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Emma Goldman:

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

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Frederick Douglass, courtesy of PoliticalProf:

The slave auctioneer’s bell and the churchgoing bell chime in with each other, and the bitter cries of the heartbroken slave are drowned in the religious shouts of his pious master.

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I’m taking the day off. QOTD will hold down the fort.

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Evelyn Waugh:

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

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Samuel Johnson:

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.

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Russell Baker:

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

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Rita Mae Brown:

Morals are private. Decency is public.

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Margaret Atwood:

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

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Elizabeth I of England:

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

Sir Walter Raleigh would no doubt agree.

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Isaac Asimov:

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written.

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Otto von Bismarck:

Politics ruins the character.

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Jane Austen:

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

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Lyndon B. Johnson:

If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll even empty his pockets for you.

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Samuel Johnson:

No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.

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John Maynard Keynes:

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

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