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Ellery Queen:

I must have been born under some sort of curse, I live in hope always that some rationale can be applied to even the most hap-hazard human set-up.

Queen, Ellery, There Was an Old Woman (New York: Jabberwocky, 2017), p. 105

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Oscar Wilde:

After the first glass (of absinthe–ed.) you see things as you wish they were. After the second glass you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

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Moses I. Finley:

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, “discovery” of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

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Lech Walesa:

You can’t change the facts with your lies, allegations and counterfeits.

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Len Deighton:

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

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Galen:

The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!

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Gough Whitlam:

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

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Patricia McKillip:

Men see what they are most afraid of.

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William Long:

Man, even the most savage and degraded, must have his god, or gods.

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Joan Baez:

I’ve never had a humble opinion. If you’ve got an opinion, why be humble about it?

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Jimmy Durante:

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

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Doris Haddock:

Democracy is not something we have, it’s something we do.

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Abigail Adams:

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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Bill Downs:

The fault of democracy everywhere, including the United States of America, is that too few people make use of it.

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Edward R. Murrow:

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

(He said that almost six decades ago . . . .)

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Tony Shalhoub, in the voice of Antonio Scarpacci:

Gaze fondly upon today, for tomorrow is bound to suck worse.

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Sherri S. Tepper:

There is a kind of animal frenzy can be whipped up sometimes among fools and children, often using religion as an excuse for it. When it happens, it is wise to be elsewhere.

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Karl Krauss:

The tyranny of necessity grants its slaves three kinds of freedom: opinion free from intellect, entertainment free from art, and orgies free from love.

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Carroll Quigley:

Our society has so cluttered our lives with artifacts [man-made things]… and organizational structures that [our] moment to moment relationships with nature are almost impossible.

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Tom Wolfe:

A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.

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