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Ödön von Horváth:

Nothing conveys the feeling of infinity as much as stupidity does.

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Vladimir Nabokov:

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

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Hal Abelson:

Anything which uses science as part of its name isn’t: political science, creation science, computer science.

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Frank Gorshin, as the Riddler:

With money, who needs friends?

Methinks this fictional character accidentally articulated the axiom of this new gilded age.

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S. S. Van Dine, in the voice of Philo Vance:

The only true and consistent theologians, don’t y’know, are the atheists.

Van Dine, S. S. (Willard Huntington Wright), The Canary Murder Case in
The Philo Vance Murder Cases, vol. 1 (Driffield, Yorkshire, UK: Leonaur LTD, 2010) p. 388.

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Chrysippus:

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

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Harriet Martineau:

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

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Goodman Ace:

TV—a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing’s well done.

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François de La Rochefoucauld:

Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.

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Graham Greene:

Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

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Mary Tyler Moore, in the voice of Peggy Regan:

Sometimes lies sound more real than the truth. They’re usually planned.

The truth isn’t.

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Jack Shepard, in the voice of D. S. Wycliffe:

It’s a very exact science, isn’t it? Hindsight.

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Leonard Bacon:

I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman’s ignorance, however great.

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Oliver Hardy:

We never see ourselves as others see us.

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Dian Fossey:

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

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George Saintsbury:

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

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Bo Poraj, in the voice of Richard Petheric:

Silence doesn’t make things go away, does it?

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Will Rogers:

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

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Virginia Woolf:

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

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Jenna Wortham:

We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm.

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