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Rosa Parks:

As far back as I can remember, I knew there was something wrong with our way of life when people could be mistreated because of the color of their skin.

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Julius Caesar:

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

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Irene Ware, in the voice of Jane Maxwell:

I’m afraid I know my luck. It’s always pretty bad.

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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.

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Etan Cohen:

I never expected Idiocracy to become a documentary.

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Cyril Luckham, in the voice of Lord Galloway:

I suppose the world would be a better place if people got ahead by merit alone, but unfortunately they don’t.

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H. P. Lovecraft:

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

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Rob Estes, in the voice of Sgt. Chris Lorenzo:

Free advice is worth what you pay for it.

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Walter Cronkite:

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But… when we’re doing news – when we’re doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we’re doing the daily news, covering politics – it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

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Juvenal:

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

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Dwight Eisenhower:

Don’t join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

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G. K. Chesterton:

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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Title:  Closing Argument.  Image:  Kamala Harris trying to push close a door labeled

Via Juanita Jean.

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Leonard Goldberg, in the voice of Joanna Blalock:

Greed has no end. It is like a bottomless well that cannot be filled. And at times the wealthiest are the worst offenders.

Goldberg, Leonard, The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Minotaur, 2017) p. 262

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Traditional Scots saying:

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

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Hal Holbrook:

We don’t have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

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Noam Chomsky:

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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Lyndon B. Johnson:

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

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Stephen King:

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

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Leonard Goldberg:

Everyone is an idle gossiper if the gossip is interesting enough.

Goldberg, Leonard, The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes (New York: Minotaur, 2017) p. 88.

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