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Harriet Tubman:

I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.

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October 12, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Isaac Asimov:

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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October 11, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Alison Golden and Grace Dagnall:

“Truth,” Katya scoffed. “Truth is created by men and by money. That is the only truth.”

Golden, Alison and Dagnall, Grace, The Case of the Uncommon Witness, (San Carlos: Mesa Verde, 2021) p. 269

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October 10, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Denis Diderot:

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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October 9, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Dawn Steele, in the voice of Lexie MacDonald, and Sara Stewart, in the voice of Amanda MacLeish:

Amanda: You can’t make an omelet without–

Lexie: There’s breaking eggs, and then there’s bombing the henhouse.

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October 8, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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James Grant, in the voice of Hamish McKinnon:

What might have been counts for nothing. It’s just a dream.

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October 7, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Josephine Tey:

If you see a giraffe once a year, it remains a spectacle; if you see it daily, it becomes part of the scenery.

Tey, Josephine, The Franchise Affair (New York: Scribner, 2020) p. 172

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October 6, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Abigail Adams:

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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October 5, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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H. L Menchken:

All of us, if we are of reflective habit, like and admire men whose fundamental beliefs differ radically from our own. But when a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or count himself lost. … All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum.

The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

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October 4, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: Political Theatre, QOTD |

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Arthur Ransome:

When a thing’s done, it’s done, and if it’s not done right, do it differently next time.

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October 4, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Amy Tan:

You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them.

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October 3, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Angus Lennie, in the voice of Badger:

We’re lions led by donkeys, right enough.

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October 2, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Albert Einstein:

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

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October 1, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Learned Hand:

You may ask what then will become of the fundamental principles of equity and fair play which our constitutions enshrine; and whether I seriously believe that unsupported they will serve merely as counsels of moderation. I do not think that anyone can say what will be left of those principles; I do not know whether they will serve only as counsels; but this much I think I do know — that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where that spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish. What is the spirit of moderation? It is the temper which does not press a partisan advantage to its bitter end, which can understand and will respect the other side, which feels a unity between all citizens—real and not the factitious product of propaganda—which recognizes their common fate and their common aspirations—in a word, which has faith in the sacredness of the individual.

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September 30, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Dwight Eisenhower:

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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September 29, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Quinton Crisp:

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, ‘Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don’t believe?

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September 28, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jens Martin Skibsted:

Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world’s workforce: robots are – or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.

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September 27, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Will Durant:

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

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September 26, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Wendy Kaminer:

If we all don’t enjoy the same rights, then no one enjoys any rights at all; some of us merely enjoy privilege.

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September 25, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Graham Greene:

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

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September 24, 2023 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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