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Lee De Forest:

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes.

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Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach:

I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.

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John Gay:

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then;
Ten thousands are devour’d by men.
An open foe may prove a curse,
but a pretend friend is worse.

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Wangari Maathai:

Human rights are not things that are put on the table for people to enjoy. These are things you fight for and then you protect.

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James Bolam, in the voice of Jack Halford:

You never see arms manufacturers on the breadline. You can always afford a war.

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Ambrose Bierce:

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

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Jack London:

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.

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Winston Churchill:

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

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Mary McCarthy:

To be disesteemed by people you don’t have much respect for is not the worst fate.

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H. G. Wells:

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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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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Voltaire:

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two they would cut each other’s throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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Connie Schultz, as quoted by Buzz Burbank:

Cynicism is lazy. Hope takes work.

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W. H. Auden:

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.

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Charlotte Bronte:

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

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Stanley Crouch:

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

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Christopher Buckley:

I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: ‘It Wasn’t My Fault’ and ‘It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn’t Been There.’

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Vicente del Bosque:

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

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Luther Burbank:

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

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