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Richard Dawkins:

Just because science can’t in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn’t mean that religion can. It’s a simple and logical fallacy to say, “If science can’t do something, therefore religion can.”

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John Stuart Mill:

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

Excuses that aren’t true are called lies.

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Hyman G. Rickover:

A free society can survive only through men and women of integrity.

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Voltaire:

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

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Cory Doctorow:

It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach:

We are so vain that we value the opinion even of those whose opinions we find worthless.

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Benvenuto Cellini:

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

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Graham Greene:

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

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Henry A. Wallace:

With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public.

Q. E. D.

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Robert Guillaume, in the voice of Benson DuBois:

You are not the first to abuse authority, Senator, and you certainly won’t be the last. That’s why they were so careful with the Constitution, so that it would work in spite of people like you.

Afterthought:

The Founders were leery of parties, which they referred to as “factions,” which leads to the question:

What happens when an entire faction chooses to ignore the Constitution?

Unfortunately, it looks as if we are finding out.

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Samuel Adams:

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

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Edward de Bono:

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.

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Albert Camus:

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

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Vilfredo Pareto:

When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.

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Galatians 6:7 (KJV):

. . . whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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Maximilien Robespierre:

The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance.

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Ronald Firbank:

The world is so disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

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C. Wright Mills:

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

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Soren Kierkegaard:

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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