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Dorothy Parker:

There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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Ban Ki-Moon:

Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die everyday in childbirth . . . Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

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Saul Bellow:

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

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Claus Ihlemann:

When you suddenly have a few powerful people deciding that a certain segment of the population is unwanted, undesirable and you just start attacking them, powerful people can do horrible, horrible damage.

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Jean Rostand:

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

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Carl Jung:

Our blight is ideologies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

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Bella Abzug:

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.

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Jean Kerr:

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t grasped the situation.

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Dan Rather:

To use tragedy to sow division is the hallmark of a despot.

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Will Rogers:

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

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Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.:

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

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T. S. Eliot:

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest—for it is a part of education to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

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John W. Campbell:

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, ‘Can’t you remember anything I told you?’ and lets fly with a club.

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Diane Koob:

The truth is more important than some story we tell ourselves . . . .

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Fernando Pessoa:

Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.

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David Sedaris:

I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

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Thomas Haden Church, in the voice of Lowell Mather:

If you are driving a car down Sesame Street, would you in fact end up in Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood?

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Pericles:

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

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Belita Moreno:

Teaching, good teaching, is a remarkable gift which I highly revere. One of the saddest things that has happened to education, I feel, is the loss of respect and honor once given to educators as professionals.

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Leo Rosten:

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

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