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Pierre Charron:

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

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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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Helmut Kohl:

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

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Oriana Fallaci:

Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called “objectivity.” Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

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Barbara Tuchman:

History is the unfolding of miscalculations.

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Stacy Keach, in the voice of Mike Hammer:

In times of war, both armies claim God’s on their side. During the Crusades, they killed in the name of Christ. The Jihad, the Intifada. It’s just mass murder sanctioned with prayers.

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A. P. Herbert:

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

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Isaac Asimov:

There has never been any custom, however useless it may become with changing conditions, that isn’t clung to desperately simply because it is something old and familiar.

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Jane Wagner:

It’s my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

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Sharan Burrow:

Democracy is becoming collateral damage in a world where global risks have been ignored or exacerbated by those with the power to act.

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Ty Cobb (the ballplayer, not the lawyer):

The crowd makes the ballgame.

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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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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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Bob Cesca:

Libertarianism is like Scientology for politics.

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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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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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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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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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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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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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