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Lysander Spooner:

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

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Ralph Phillips, character in the MGM cartoon, “Boyhood Daze”:

I get blamed for everything I do.

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Douglas William Jerrold:

God said, “Let us make man in our image.” Man said, ‘Let us make God in our image.”

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Hy Averback, as the Narrator:

There’s only one perfect piece of advice for one friend to give another. Give it, and you’ll never get in trouble. And you can say it in three words: don’t ask me.

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Philo:

Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining.

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Harry S Truman:

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

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H. P. Lovecraft:

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man’s opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he’s talking about.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower:

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.

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Daisaku Ikeda:

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

And, I would add, not to do so betrays that hopw.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg:

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‘Citizens United.’ I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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Isaac Asimov:

Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

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H. G. Wells:

Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.

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Dorothy Day:

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

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Harry Blackmun:

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

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Phoebe Atwood Taylor, in the voice of Asey Mayo:

Everyone’s got a right to go to hell in their own way, as ole Cap’n Porter used to say.

Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, The Tinkling Symbol (New York: Norton, 2024) p. 182.

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Robert Smith Surtees:

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

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Ken Burns:

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

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Eric Hoffer:

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

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Charles Dudley Warner:

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

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Bernard Ingham:

Many journalists have fallen for the conspiracy theory of government. I do assure you that they would produce more accurate work if they adhered to the cock-up theory.

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