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Kenneth L. Pike:

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

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December 17, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Edmund Crispin:

Human beings who propose doing something idiotic generally manage to persuade themselves that the laws of nature are going to be suspended for their benefit . . . .

Crispin, Edmund (Robert Bruce Montgomery), The Long Divorce (Ipso Books, 2017), p. 67.
(I was unable to find any information about Ipso books, there is no physical address in the
volume, and the website, www.ipsobooks.com, listed on the book appears to be defunct.
But the book is real and readily available from other sources.)

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December 16, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Emma Goldman:

Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.

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December 15, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Louisa May Alcott:

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.

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December 14, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Nina Federoff:

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

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December 13, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Edith Hamilton:

It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life.

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December 12, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ursula K. Le Guin:

There are no right answers to wrong questions.

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December 11, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Diane Sawyer:

I’m always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

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December 10, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jeremy Collier:

Belief gets in the way of learning.

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December 9, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Bernard Crick:

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

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December 8, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Horace:

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

And he wrote that long before the inner tubes existed . . . .

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December 7, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Daniel Defoe:

All men would be tyrants if they could.

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December 6, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Mary Shipp, in the voice of Angie, in Simon Carries the Ivy:

People only erect barriers who are frightened.

Aside:

Yeah, I know the modifier is misplaced, but the gist is good.

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December 5, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Bill Vaughan:

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

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December 4, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Robert Frost:

Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.

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December 3, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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J. B. Priestley:

Living in age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

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December 2, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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P. T Barnum:

Money is in some respects life’s fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

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December 1, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Bosco Hogan, in the voice of Sir Paul Berowne:

A politician has to listen to humbug, talk humbug, condone humbug, we don’t actually have to believe it.

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December 1, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Vincent Price, in the voice of Simon Templar*:

Youth has no monopoly on idiocy.

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*In The Missing Bridegroom

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November 30, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jeremy Irons:

Civility, politeness, it’s like a cement in a society: binds it together. And when we lose it, then I think we all feel lesser and slightly dirty because of it.

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November 29, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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