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Clarence Darrow:

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.

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Jean de la Bruyere:

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

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David Jason, in the voice of Inspector Frost:

Conspiracy theories are always flavor of the month.

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A. E. Housman:

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

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George Washington:

To secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each and yet provide for the interest and safety for all — individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.

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Tacitus:

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

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Lemuel K. Washburn:

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

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Gerard Horan, in the voice of Ray Butler:

The thing is, once you start with a lie, there’s somehow no going back, is there?

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Sophie Tucker:

I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Rich is better.

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David Jason, in the voice of Inspector Frost:

The more you know about people, the more you appreciate dogs.

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Ben Jonson:

Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.

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Hunter S. Thompson:

The slow-rising central horror of “Watergate” is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.

Q. E. D.

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Lucille Ball:

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

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Indro Montanelli:

The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.

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Eugene V. Debs:

Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most — that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least.

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Christine Pelosi:

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

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John Moffatt, in the voice of Hercule Poirot:

The wages of sin are said to be death, but sometimes the wages of sin seem to be luxury.

From episode 5 of the BBC production of Agatha Christie’s Taken at the Flood, which you can find at the Old Time Radio Theater, linked in the sidebar, over there ——->.

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Isaac Asimov:

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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Stuart Langridge:

Every time someone talks about making something “exclusive,” what they are actually doing working out how to exclude some people from having it. That’s what “exclusive” means.

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