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Alison Golden, in the voice of Inspector Graham as he takes notes with a pencil and notepad instead of a tablet:

It was easy to appear a dinosaur these days if you hadn’t handed over the running of your life–and the basic duties of your profession–to a couple of gadgets.

Golden, Alison, The Case of the Screaming Beauty, in The Inspector Graham
Mysteries Books 1-4
(San Carlos, CA: Mesa Verde Publishing) p.46.

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Walter Reuther:

We have to reassert the sovereignty of people above profits in America.

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Roger Ebert:

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

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Susan Hampshire, in the voice of Molly MacDonald:

There are days in life in which one is the fly and rare, magical moments in which one is, at long last, the windscreen.

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Alastair Mackenzie, in the voice of Archie MacDonald, and Alexander Morton, in the voice of Golly Mackenzie:

Golly: I’m as cynical as the next man, but best to keep an open mind where the other world i concerned.

Archie: If it exists, I hope is makes more sense than this one.

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Paul Virilio:

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution… Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

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Jane Wagner:

Why is it when we talk to God we’re said to be praying — but when God talks to us, we’re said to be schizophrenic?

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Seneca the Younger:

You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise.

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin:

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

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Richard Briers, in the voice of Hector MacDonald:

Bad behavior is one of the few privileges of old age.

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Jean de La Bruyere:

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well, nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

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Dora Russell:

We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction.

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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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