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Joseph Heller:

Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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Penn Jillette:

The medium is not the message – the message is the message.

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Morris Udall:

For those of you who don’t understand Reaganomics, it’s based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.

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Incredible String Band:

We’re all still here
no one has gone away . . . .

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T. S. Eliot

In this last of meeting places
We grope together
And avoid speech
Gathered on this beach of the tumid river

Sightless, unless
The eyes reappear
As the perpetual star
Multifoliate rose
Of death’s twilight kingdom
The hope only
Of empty men.

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Michael Palin:

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

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Theodore Roosevelt:

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

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Simon Bolivar:

Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.

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Clarence Darrow:

History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.

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A. Conan Doyle:

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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Ocar Wilde:

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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Isaac Asimov, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

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Jack Paar:

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it’s the rich people who keep saying it.

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Peter Ustinov:

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we’re all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

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Eric Hoffer:

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

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Nelson Rockefeller:

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

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Molly Ivins:

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

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Horace Greeley:

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

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Linus Torvalds:

When you say “I wrote a program that crashed Windows,” people just stare at you blankly and say “Hey, I got those with the system, for free.”

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Juvenal:

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

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