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Anton Checkov:

There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; anything that is national is not scientific.

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Tallulah Bankhead:

Here’s a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

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H. L. Mencken:

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

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ALF:

Do you know what you get when you shake life’s lapels? Life’s dandruff. That’s what you get.

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In Elementary (S02E03).

Watson: . . . and a book by Ayn Rand.

Holmes: Ah! The philosopher for the intellectually bankrupt.

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W. Somerset Maugham:

The nature of men and women – their essential nature – is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

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Voltaire:

The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.

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John Wesley:

To lay up treasure on earth is as plainly forbidden by our Master as adultery and murder.

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Larry McCurtry:

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look – historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

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“Weird Al” Yankovich:

If money can’t buy happiness, I guess I’ll have to rent it.

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Henry Steele Commager:

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn’t foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

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Malcolm Forbes:

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don’t understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn’t a business.

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John S. Hall:

If you think things can’t get any worse, you have no imagination and no sense of history.

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Thomas Mann:

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

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Douglas Adams:

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

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Ambrose Bierce:

To Dogmatism the Spirit of Inquiry is the same as the Spirit of Evil.

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Dean Acheson:

Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Timely, eh, what?

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Isabel Allende:

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

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Adam Osborne:

People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They’re wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

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