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Joseph Joubert:

We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.

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Jeremy Bentham:

Ah! when will the yoke of Custom—Custom, the blind tyrant, of which all other tyrants make their slave—ah! when will that misery-perpetuating yoke be shaken off?—when, when will Reason be seated on her throne?

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Virgil:

Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world.

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Dorothy Parker:

There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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Mitzi Kapture, as Sgt. Rita Lee Lance, and Dennis Paladino, as shady underworld-adjacent figure Donnie “Dogs” DiBarto:

Rita: I didn’t know you played golf, Donnie. I wouldn’t think that would be your game.

Donnie: Of course, kid. I was born for it. You get made, swing the club, put it in a hole, and lie about it afterwards.

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Georgina Bloomberg:

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change it today and don’t wait until the New Year.

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C. S. Lewis:

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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Berkeley Breathed:

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.

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John Galsworthy:

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

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Bruce Schneier:

Elections serve two purposes. The first, and obvious, purpose is to accurately choose the winner. But the second is equally important: to convince the loser.

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James Fallows:

Successful societies — those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world — succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good. The behavior that helps each person will, as a cumulative ethos, help the society as a whole.

Aside:

Ironically, we now have an entire political party dedicated to the proposition that there is no such thing as the collective good.

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Kerry Greenwood:

Civilization is as thin as cigarette paper. The Romans knew that, and the Greeks. We have forgotten it.

Greenwood, Kerry, Earthly Delights (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2008) p. 112.

Kerry Greenwood makes words dance.

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Bill Daley, in the voice of Doc:

You missed the whole point about the holidays. Christmas isn’t about eating and singing and watching old movies. It’s about gifts.

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Mitzi Kapture, in the voice of Sgt. Rita Lee Lance:

Once you sell your soul, you can’t get it back.

In case you need one, here’s an example.

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Jane Addams:

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city’s disinherited.

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Kofi Annan:

As long as inequality and other social problems plague us, populists will try to exploit them.

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Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:

The lion is only the second most dangerous animal. The first is man.

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Judge John J. Sirica (Watergate judge):

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

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Robert Quillen:

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.

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Brigitte Bardot:

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

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