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Robert Englund:

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

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Rae Hendrie. in the voice of Jess McCrae:

Some knots you can’t untie.

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H. G. Wells:

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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Stanley Kubrick:

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

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Charles Kettering:

Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

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Joseph Joubert:

It is not facts, but rumors that cause emotions among the people. What is believed creates everything.

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Buzz Burbank:

Any party that cannot govern itself is incapable of governing us.

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Susan Hampshire, in the voice of Molly MacDonald:

Somehow, when things change, it’s easier to just put your head in the sand and leave it there.

Afterthought:

It seems to that there’s quite a bit of that going on these days.

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Josephine Tey:

The problem with you, dear, as that you think of an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, when he is probably a scruffy little man in a bowler hat.

Tey, Josephine (Elizabeth MacKintosh), The Franchise Affair (New York: Scribner, 2020), p. 251

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Patrick Henry:

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

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Beilby Porteus:

One murder made a villain, millions a hero.

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Helen Keller:

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

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Eric Hoffer:

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

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Henry A. Wallace:

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

Plus ca change . . . .

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Heywood Broun:

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don’t read.

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Glyn Daniel:

We know only too well that all over the world, from wayward undergraduate to B. B. C. producer to publisher’s reader there are people, otherwise sensible and sane, people who would not believe in six-headed cats and blood-curdling spectral monsters, who yet read some folly about Noah’s ark or Atlantis or cataclysmic world-tides, and say, with a contented sigh, “There may be something in it, you know.”

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Thomas Paine:

. . . when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

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Susan Hampshire, in the voice of Molly MacDonald:

We all harbor dark thoughts. The secret is to know them for what they are.

Aside:

If you can find Monarh of the Glen on a streaming service, watch it.

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Rosa Parks:

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

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Susan Hampshire, in the voice of Molly MacDonald, and Lloyd Owen, in the voice of Paul Bowman:

Molly: You know what they say in the beginning of wisdom.

Paul: Yeah, a good kick up the backside.

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