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T. S. Eliot:

It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

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Trevor Noah:

Donald Trump didn’t invent racism. Trump didn’t invent islamophobia. And he didn’t invent violence. All he did was put his name on them like he does with everything else.

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John Waters:

I don’t like reality TV. I don’t want to look down on people.

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Hal Boyle:

We need not worry so much about what man descends from – it’s what he descends to that shames the human race.

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P. D. James:

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

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Barry Commoner:

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.

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Paul Harvey:

Self-government won’t work without self-discipline.

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Oscar Wilde:

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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William Faulkner:

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

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Pythagoras:

No man is free who cannot control himself.

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Joseph Joubert:

We are afraid of having and showing a small mind and we are not afraid of having and showing a small heart.

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Jeremy Bentham:

Ah! when will the yoke of Custom—Custom, the blind tyrant, of which all other tyrants make their slave—ah! when will that misery-perpetuating yoke be shaken off?—when, when will Reason be seated on her throne?

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Virgil:

Rumor, swiftest of all the evils in the world.

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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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Mitzi Kapture, as Sgt. Rita Lee Lance, and Dennis Paladino, as shady underworld-adjacent figure Donnie “Dogs” DiBarto:

Rita: I didn’t know you played golf, Donnie. I wouldn’t think that would be your game.

Donnie: Of course, kid. I was born for it. You get made, swing the club, put it in a hole, and lie about it afterwards.

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Georgina Bloomberg:

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change it today and don’t wait until the New Year.

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C. S. Lewis:

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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Berkeley Breathed:

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.

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John Galsworthy:

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

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Bruce Schneier:

Elections serve two purposes. The first, and obvious, purpose is to accurately choose the winner. But the second is equally important: to convince the loser.

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