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Harry Shearer:

Crypto-fraudster. Is that a redundancy yet?

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Fran de Waal:

The possibility that empathy resides in parts of the brain so ancient that we share them with rats should give pause to anyone comparing politicians with those poor, underestimated creatures.

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Louis Kronenberger:

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

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Alfred Adler:

It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

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Luigi Pirandello:

Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one, isn’t it?

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Jerry Coyne:

Anybody who claims that people don’t cherry-pick their morality from the Bible, choosing that which comports with their extra-Biblical notions of what’s good and bad, is simply blind.

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David Hume:

Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.

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L. Frank Baum:

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that “when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre.”

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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.

Q. E. D.

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Weaver Levy, as George Moon:

The innocent trust; the wise are wary.

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Walter Gropius:

The mind is like an umbrella – it functions best when open.

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Robert Gilpin:

Every dominant state, and particularly an empire, promotes a religion or ideology that justifies its domination over other states in the system.

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Arthur Koestler:

The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.

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Buzz Burbank:

It’s amazing what a little information can do to your opinion.

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Bill Daily, in the voice of Howard Borden:

Even if you stink at what you do, you can always do something else that you stink less at.

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Iris Chang:

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

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Spike Lee:

Everybody’s a teacher. People can teach you two things, what to do and what not to do.

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Charles de Gaulle:

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

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Jack Vance:

I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.

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Demosthenes:

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

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