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Frank Lloyd Wright:

Art for art’s sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

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Nathan Fillion:

I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands – there’s really no substitute.

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Gene Kelly, in the voice of Jerry Mulligan:

Civilization has a natural resistance against improving itself.

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W. Edwards Deming:

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

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Louis Agassiz:

Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell:

What a pity that he who steals a penny loaf should be hung, whilst he who steals thousands of the public money should be acquitted!

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Lou Reed:

I don’t like nostalgia unless it’s mine.

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H. G. Wells:

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

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Ulysses S. Grant:

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

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Sarah Kendzior:

As scholars of authoritarianism have long advised, believe the autocrat when he speaks.

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Benjamin Disraeli:

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

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Alison Bell, the voice of Adeline Campbell:

He was a consumate politician. Everything was about himself.

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Grace Hopper:

A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge. We’ve tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

Given the current hoopla over “AI,” methinks this quite a timely statement.

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Chris Adami:

We found evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn’t evolutionarily sustainable.

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Tom Clancy:

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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Livy:

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

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Billy Ray:

The opposite of chaos politically is not order. The opposite of chaos is community.

By the way, the interview from which that quotation is taken is worth a listen. Billy Ray shares some most thoughtful–er–thoughts.

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Craig McLacklan, in the voice of Dr. Blake, and LYke Ryan, in the voice of Xavier McBride:

McBride: Do you believe in God, Doctor?

Blake: I used to believe in a just and merciful God.

McBride: And now?

Blake: And now I’m not so sure.

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Hypatia:

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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Johnny Carson:

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

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