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Guy de Maupassant:

Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

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David Suzuki:

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

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Justin Trudeau:

A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.

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Quentin Crisp:

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.

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Frank Maxwell, in the voice of Rector:

All men have enemies. It’s your friends of whom you must be wary.

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P. D. James:

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

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Marcus Garvey:

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

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Leo Chavez and Dan Simmons:

It’s not artificial intelligence. . . . It’s enhanced automation.

The relevent discussion takes place at about the one hour 20 minute mark.

(And, yeah, I”m behind on some the podcasts I regularly listen to.)

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P. G. Wodehouse:

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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Chauncey Depew:

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

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S.Z. Sakall, in the voice of Felix Bassenak:

Sometimes, if you shut up, maybe you learn something.

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Phoebe Atwood Taylor:

. . . old age is such a lovely excuse for not doing what you don’t want to do anyway.

Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, Figure Away (Woodstock, VT: Foul Play Press, 1991) p. 28.

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Virginia Woolf:

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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Bob Hope:

If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

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E. B. White:

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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Van Wyck Brooks:

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me… by newspapers and the Bible.

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John Byner, in the voice of Cotton Dunn:

A novice looks at a real estate ad and sees “ample parking.” I see “dirt front yard.”

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Jerry Coyne:

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

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Aleksandr Pushkin:

The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths.

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Mary Wollstonecraft:

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

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