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Stephen Jay Gould:

I’m a profound anti-romantic. Romanticism is dangerous. Romanticism untrammeled by intellect gives rise to fascism after all.

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Sophocles:

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

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Thomas Ligotti:

What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.

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Malcolm Muggeridge:

If you say to me that men are so made that the strongest kicks the weakest in the teeth and then the strongest survive, and go on to argue that if you apply this to economics you will get a happy society, you have done an irreparable wrong as we know, as we have seen.

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E. M. Forster:

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

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Bertrand Russell:

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

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Dan Rather:

To use tragedy to sow division is the hallmark of a despot.

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Noam Chomsky:

The Internet has compromised the quality of debate.

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Ingrid Bergman, in the voice of Stephanie Dickinson:

Whenever people hurt your feelings, they’ve always done it for your own good.

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Diogenes:

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

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Jack Paar:

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

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John Locke:

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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Sean M. Carroll:

One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we’ve taken this incredibly interesting subject – how the universe works – and made it boring.

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Blaise Pascal:

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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Neil Dudgeon, in the voice of DCI John Barnaby:

I finally realized that the future isn’t really on its way. In truth, it’s already arrived.

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Paul Newman:

If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.

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James Craig, in the voice of Nels Halverson:

The only thing that can make a land evil is the people who inhabit it.

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Kerry Greenwood:

Nothing like a really improbable quest to occupy a holiday. It prepared one for later life quests, like Justice and Truth, equally unattainable.

Greenwood, Kerry, Dead Man’s Chest (Scottsdale: Poisoned Pen Press, 2010) p. 64.

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Scott Joplin:

Boy, when I’m dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.

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Ernie Pyle:

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

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