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Jesse Owens:

Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.

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John Kenneth Galbraith:

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

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Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette:

I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery.

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Salmon Rushdie:

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

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Henry Rollins:

More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.

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Paddy Chayefsky:

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Afterthought:

I wonder what he would thought about “social” media.

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Jamelle Hill:

No problem in the history of humankind has ever gotten solved by evading it.

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Camillo di Cavour:

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

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Ian Rooney, in the voice of Cec Drury:

Well, sir, my father used to say that golf was a waste of good farmland.

Aside:

To be clear, I got nothing against golf. I don’t play, but I understand the fascination. It’s like pool (indeed, I once had a pool table): it’s not you against the other players, it’s you against the ball. But I still think it’s great line.

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William D. Andrews, through the voice of Julie Williamson:

Ignorance, she had come to understand, was no bar to his pronouncement of truths . . . .

Andrews, Willam D., Mapping Murder (Yarmouth, ME: Islandport Press, 2017) p. 44>

Aside:

No, Donald Trump is not a figure in the story.

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Paul Samuelson:

Good questions outrank easy answers.

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Theodore Roosevelt:

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

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Andy Rooney:

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.

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Kenneth Clark:

Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.

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John G. Azzopardi:

Experience can be merely the repetition of same error often enough.

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Marie Curie:

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

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Myrna Loy:

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Aside:

I wonder what she would have to say about “social” media?

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Car Jung:

The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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Juvenal:

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

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Erasmus:

Animals only follow their natural instincts; but man, unless he has experienced the influence of learning and philosophy, is at the mercy of impulses that are worse than those of a wild beast. There is no beast more savage and dangerous than a human being who is swept along by the passions of ambition, greed, anger, envy, extravagance, and sensuality.

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