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Edgar Allan Poe:

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

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Gerald Durrell:

There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.

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Ann Baker, in the voice of Corliss Archer, speaking about her boyfriend Dexter:

Lots of times in the school lunchroom we just look in each other’s eyes and forget to eat. And, golly, that’s really love when two people just look at each other and lose their appetites.

Meet Corliss Archer is a very early TV sitcom, based on an even earlier radio sitcom. It is an absolute hoot.

I’m watching it on Tubi.

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Bernard Malamud:

If your train’s on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

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Samuel Richardson:

Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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Art Buchwald:

You can’t make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you’re doing is recording it.

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John Eldredge, in the voice of Harry Archer:

What in the world is going on here? There must be some logical explanation.

Correction.

There must be some explanation.

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Nora Ephron:

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

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Loren Cunningham:

Disagreements don’t cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

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Lillian Hellman:

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

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E. B. White:

I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear.

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Margery Allingham:

To be free takes a lot of time and trouble.

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Cicero:

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

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Thomas Babington Macaulay:

The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion.

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Oscar Wilde:

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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Robert Reich:

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Donald Trump is attacking education, science, museums and the arts. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.

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Hy Averback:

Life is a dangerous thing. Very few of us get out of it alive.

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Maureen O’Hara:

There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else’s entertainment.

I wonder what she would say about “social” media.

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Daniel Ellsberg:

If monarchy is corrupting – and it is – wait till you see what overt empire does to us.

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Patrick Henry:

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

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