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Mary Katharine Ham:

Valentine’s Day is a holiday of high emotions, mostly stress. The occasion has the unique ability to make both those who do participate in it and those who don’t feel vaguely unfulfilled.

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V=Malcolm Gladwell:

The bottom line is that civil society simply cannot function without default to truth…I can’t converse with you, for instance, if I subject every statement that comes out of your mouth to critical scrutiny before I accept it as true. Conversation cannot proceed without default to truth.

We see the truth of his statement every day.

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Henry Adams:

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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Rex Evans, in the voice of Welsley Dean, upon the discovery of the victim in a mystery show:

I just don’t happen to agree with the theory that the sudden death of a man automatically improves his character.

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Jonathan Swift:

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

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Robin Day:

Commerce is against morality. Morality is going to lose every time.

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Kerry Greenwood:

Email is a trap; it feels private, but it isn’t.

Greenwood, Kerry, Trick or Treat (Scotsdale, AZ, Poisoned Pen Press, 2010) p. 161

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Andy Rooney:

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

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Raphael Warnock:

When you’re accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression.

Aside:

Methinks we are seeing evidence of his observation playing out in dis coarse discourse.

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Hunter S. Thompson:

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

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Antoine Lavoisier:

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

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Max Berry:

It’s much easier to be incomprehensible than intelligent, and most people can’t spot the difference.

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Robert Benchley:

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

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Vladimir Nabokov:

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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Oscar Wilde:

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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Alexis de Tocqueville:

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

Afterthought:

If you have not read his Democracy in America, do so. In my opinion, the only one person understood America better than de Tocqueville, and that was Mark Twain.

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Maulana Karenga:

One of the greatest powers in the world is the ability to define reality and cause others to accept it. This power is even increased although negatively when one can define reality and make others accept it even when it is to their disadvantage.

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Uri Avnery:

The only people who have an official confirmation that they are sane are those who have been released from psychiatric hospitals.

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Henry S. Haskins:

Symbols have a trick of stealing the show away from the thing they stand for.

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William Anton, in the voice of Assistant D.A. George Donovan:

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.

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