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Soren Kierkegaard:

Once you label me you negate me.

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Lemuel K. Washburn:

If we do not need to worship God six days in the week why do we need to worship him on the seventh?

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Anais Nin:

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

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Jerry Brown:

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

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Harry Truman:

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

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Arthur Schopenhauer:

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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Aeschylus:

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

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Plutarch:

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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Alex Haley:

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

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Penn Jullette:

Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people.

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Empedocles:

Fortunate is he who has acquired a wealth of divine understanding, but wretched the one whose interest lies in shadowy conjectures about divinities.

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Augustine of Hippo:

The superfluities of the rich are the necessaries of the poor. They who possess superfluities, possess the goods of others.

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John Nettles, in the voice of DCI Tom Barnaby:

When killing become entertainment, we all lose touch with reality.

Think Donald Trump’s war on Iran.

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Cato the Elder:

Those who commit private theft pass their lives in confinement and fetters; plunderers of the public, in gold and purple.

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Ursula Goodenough:

Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

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Caroline Graham:

“I must say,” said Simon . . . , “I never realized how tiring long-term insincerity could be. I shall never envy politicians again.”

Graham, Caroline, Murder at Maddingley Grange (London: Headline Publishing Group, 2009) p. 122

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Pericles:

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

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Voltaire:

Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours.

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Heinz von Foerster:

Objectivity is a subject’s delusion that observing can be done without him. Involving objectivity is abrogating responsibility – hence its popularity.

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Harry Turtledove;

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

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