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Anton Checkov:

Good breeding doesn’t mean that you won’t spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won’t notice when someone else does.

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

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Denis Diderot:

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.Deni

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

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Bernard Beckett:

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

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November 8, 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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November 7, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Robert G. Ingersholl:

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth does not need the assistance of miracle. A fact will fit every other fact in the Universe, because it is the product of all other facts. A lie will fit nothing except another lie made for the express purpose of fitting it.

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

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

The more you put in a brain, the more it will hold–if you have a brain.

Stout, Rex, Might As Well Be Dead (New York: Bantam, 1993) p. 94.

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

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Jim Wallis:

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it’s a faith issue, it’s a religious issue.

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

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P. D. James:

In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren’t credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.

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

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Blaise Pascal:

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

(Broken link fixed.)

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

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Tom Clancy:

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

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

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Robert Englund:

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

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October 31, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Gene Roddenberry:

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

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

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Immanuel Kant:

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

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

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Ambrose Bierce, from The Devil’s Dictionary:

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

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October 28, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Alexandre Dumas, in the voice of Athos the Musketeer:

People in general only ask advice not to follow it. If they do follow it, it is only for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.

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October 27, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Barry Sanders:

One of the flabby lines you hear sometimes is, ‘Speak truth to power’. Power knows the truth. It’s speaking the truth to yourself that’s the challenge.

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October 26, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Pythagoras:

The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.

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October 25, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Desmond Ford:

A wise man changes his mind sometimes, but a fool never.

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October 24, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Demosthenes:

The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different.

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October 23, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jerry Coyne:

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding “truth”: dogma, authority, and revelation. Science does find truth, faith does not.

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