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Ty Cobb (the ballplayer, not the lawyer):

The crowd makes the ballgame.

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November 28, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Pliny the Elder:

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.

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November 27, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jed S/ Rakoff:

If, in the name of combating terrorism, we so restrict our own freedom, have we not thereby lost part of the very battle we seek to win?

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November 26, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Bob Cesca:

Libertarianism is like Scientology for politics.

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November 25, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Mark Cox, in the voice of Tam Mullen, about someone who has gone viral on the inner tubes:

That’s the problem with the modern world. You can get famous for doing nothing.

Methinks he has a point.

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November 24, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Frank A. Clark:

If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.

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November 23, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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November 22, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Aldous Huxley:

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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November 21, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Arthur Schopenhauer:

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

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November 20, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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James Branch Cabell:

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

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November 19, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Bennett Cerf:

Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.

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November 18, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Dorothy Parker:

There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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November 17, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jeremy Bentham:

Secrecy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government.

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November 16, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Josephine Tey:

When a man’s personality is entirely facade, . . . it was dfficult to decide how much of the facade was barricading and how much was mere poster-hoarding.

Tey, Josephine (Elizabeth MacKintosh), To Love and Be Wise (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2020) p. 126

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November 15, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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William James:

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

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November 14, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Paul Auster:

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

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November 13, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Taylor Caldwell:

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

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November 12, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Alexander Woollcott:

I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it.

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November 11, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Cassandra Newby-Alexander:

Only people who are trying to protect themselves don’t want to talk about the racism of the past . . . .

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November 10, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: "That Conversation about Race", QOTD |

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Margot Fonteyn:

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one’s work seriously and taking one’s self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

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November 10, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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