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Saul Gorn:

It’s amazing how we can do things simultaneously, like talking and not listening.

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Charles Mackay:

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

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David Schramm, in the voice of Roy Biggins:

You know, you make up a story and repeat it enough times it starts to sound true.

Q. E. D.

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George Orwell:

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

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Jeffrey Stevens:

It is not paranoia if people are actually trying to get you.

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David Ferguson:

You will never go broke selling deep-fried stupid to the American people.

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Chapman Cohen:

The average man is happier in the wrong with a crowd, than he is in the right with only one or two companions.

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Eric Shinseki:

If you dislike change, you’re going to dislike irrelevance even more.

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Jeffrey Kluger:

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can’t therefore argue that the net doesn’t exist. Just ask the fish.

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William Beck, in the voice of Detective Inspector Piers Tarrant:

The modern holy trinity is money, sex, and celebrity.

Aside:

The show aired in 2005, when Twitter and the Zuckerborg were in their infancy. Today, “likes” and “retweets” might replace one, if not two, of those items.

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W. Bruce Cameron:

I’ve read that an average dog possesses a vocabulary of 200-300 words, which is enough for him to have his own Twitter account.

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Andrew Lang:

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.

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Timothy Daly, in the voice of Joe Hackett:

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have wonderful Christmas.

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Alexander Graham Bell:

There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek answers for his unceasing hows and whys about things.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer:

We must believe in free will, we have no choice.

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Paul Farmer:

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that’s wrong with the world.

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Aldous Huxley:

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Q. E. D.

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Naomi Iizuka:

I think it is dangerous to run away from history.

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Max Boot:

I have not given up my faith in democracy – it remains the worst form of government except for all the others – but I have given up my youthful expectation that it would inevitably triumph.

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G. K. Chesterton:

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

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