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Mencius:

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

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Stuart Langridge:

When you can’t decide on a thing, pick the side with the fewest (less than desirable persons–ed.) on it and you quite often come out okay in the process.

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Naomi Klein:

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

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Herman Hesse:

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

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Nancy Astor;

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

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Robert A. Heinlein:

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

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Spinoza:

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

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Herman Melville:

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

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H, P. Lovecraft:

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

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Mark Twain:

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

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Alexis de Tocqueville:

“The will of the nation” is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

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sundialsvcs, in a post at Linux Questions:

There is no “I” in “AI”!

Aside:

I have been a member of LQ for almost two decades. In my opinion, it is the friendliest Linux place on the inner webs.

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William Ralph Inge:

Patriotism varies, from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy.

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Hannah Arendt:

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

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H. L. Mencken:

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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Roger Bacon:

To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

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Livy:

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

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Maurice Davis:

We know, and we must never forget, that every path leads somewhere. The path of segregation leads to lynching. The path of anti-Semitism leads to Auschwitz. The path of cults leads to Jonestown. We ignore this fact at our peril.

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Hugh Gaitskell:

Fascism has become the last defence of a crumbling economic system. It is the last bulwark of Capitalism.

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Eleanor Bron:

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

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