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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

Dread feeds on itself.

Stout, Rex, Before Midnight (New York: Bantam, 1993) p. 195

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Henry Fielding:

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

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Amelia Earhart:

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

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Henry Miller:

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

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Petronius:

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well.

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Ryan Stiles, in the voice of Lewis Kiniski:

This is America. The land where if you’re dumb enough, anything is possible.

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Henry David Thoreau:

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

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Susan Cain:

There is zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

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Leo Tolstoy:

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

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Fred M. Vinson:

Whatever theoretical merit there may be to the argument that there is a “right” to rebellion against dictatorial governments is without force where the existing structure of the government provides for peaceful and orderly change.

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Kevin Whately, in the voice of Detective Inspector Lewis:

Does everybody just lie for fun?

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Alan Wallace:

‘Righteous hatred’ is in the same category as ‘righteous cancer’ or ‘righteous tuberculosis’. All of them are absurd concepts.

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Julien Benda:

Up until our own times men had only received two sorts of teaching in what concerns the relations between politics and morality. One was Plato’s and it said: “Morality decides politics”; and the other was Machiavelli’s, and it said “Politics have nothing to do with morality.” Today we receive a third. M. Maurras teaches: “Politics decide morality.”

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Clarence Darrow:

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

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Theophrastus:

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

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Johannes Brahms:

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

Q. E. D.

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Drew Carey, as Drew Carey in The Drew Carey Show:

You can’t meditate your problems away.

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Kenneth Clark:

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

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Stendhal:

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

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Margaret Chase Smith:

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act too impulsively without thinking.

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