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Mary McCarthy:

To be disesteemed by people you don’t have much respect for is not the worst fate.

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H. G. Wells:

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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Alex Haley:

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

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Voltaire:

If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two they would cut each other’s throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

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Connie Schultz, as quoted by Buzz Burbank:

Cynicism is lazy. Hope takes work.

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W. H. Auden:

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don’t know.

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Charlotte Bronte:

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.

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Stanley Crouch:

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

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Christopher Buckley:

I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: ‘It Wasn’t My Fault’ and ‘It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn’t Been There.’

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Vicente del Bosque:

We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.

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Luther Burbank:

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

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Michael Maloney, in the voice of Neville Gallagher:

You always remember when it’s too late.

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P. D. James:

Human kindness is like a defective tap, the first gush may be impressive but the stream soon dries up.

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Cristopher Hitchens:

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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Helene Deutsch:

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

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Hypatia:

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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Jane Welsh Carlyle:

When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.

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Publius Syrus:

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

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George Herman “Babe” Ruth:

. . . a man who knows he’s making money for other people ought to get some of the profits he brings in.

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