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Dean Acheson:

President Truman used to say that budget figures revealed far more of proposed policy than speeches.

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Thales of Miletus:

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Afterthought:

I was led to seek out a quote form Thales of Miletus by Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mystery, Death of a Doxy.

I have been a Nero Wolfe fan since I read Some Buried Caesar in the back of the family car as my parents drove us to visit my grandmother [mumble] years ago. I am currently escaping reality by rereading the Nero Wolfe canon.

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Gustave Flaubert:

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

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Kevn Whately, in the voice of Detective Inspector Lewis:

Life’s just a series of moments. That’s all there is.

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Ted Danson, in the voice of Dr. John Becker, and Terry Farrell, in the voice Reggie Kostas:

Becker: I wanted learn more about psychos, so I went on the internet.

Kostas: Where better?

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John Danforth:

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

(Broken tag fixed.)

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Hunter S. Thompson:

Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

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H. L. Mencken:

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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Ted Danson, in the voice of Dr. John Becker:

Religion is supposed to be about people being nice to each other, but, frankly, I don’t see a lot of that. You know what I do see? I see a lot of people using the good book to say that they are morally superior. I see people building TV stations to bilk grandma out of her pension check, all in the name of God. How about all those god-fearing people killing other god-fearing people because they don’t fear God the same way.

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Jack Horner:

Comparing science and religion isn’t like comparing apples and oranges – it’s more like apples and sewing machines.

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Paul Eldridge:

Man is always ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

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Ted Danson, in the voice of Dr. John Becker:

Frankly, I’d pay extra for a device that would make it harder for the world to find me.

Little did he know how prescient he was.

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Sydney Smith:

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.

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Julia Cameron:

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea.

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Lech Walesa:

You can’t change the facts with your lies, allegations and counterfeits.

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John Tukey:

Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

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Paul Theroux:

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

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Alexander Graham Bell:

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

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Herodotus:

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

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Eugene S. Wilson:

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The Quest Quotient has always interested me more than the Intelligence Quotient.

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