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John Thaw, in the voice of Chief Inspector Morse:

To make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

If you are a mystery buff, find a way to watch Inspector Morse and its spin-off, Inspector Lewis. They are both superb.

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Kenneth Clark:

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

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A. E. Housman:

Three minutes’ thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

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Vanna Bonta:

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

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William Feather:

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t. It’s knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it’s knowing how to use the information once you get it.

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Leo Rosten:

I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.

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Gabrielle Giffords:

But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying “no” to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one’s own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

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John Thaw in the voice of Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately in the voice of Sergeant Lewis:

Morse: Suppose you thought you found the secret of life itself?

Lewis: There isn’t one, is there?

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Arthur Helps:

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

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Judith Tarr:

The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

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Pearl Bailey:

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that.

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Caratacus:

If you want to rule the world, does it follow that everyone else welcomes enslavement?

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Blaise Pascal:

Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.

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Caroline Kennedy:

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.

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Freddie Jones, in the voice of Harry Field Senior:

It’s very hard to be content when you can’t achieve.

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Harry S Truman:

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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James Thurber:

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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Jeffrey Sachs:

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

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Lisa Randall:

I think it’s a problem that people are considered immoral if they’re not religious. That’s just not true. This might earn me some enemies, but in some ways they may be even more moral. If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you’ll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That’s not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.

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Maurice Davis:

It seems to me that any cult has to have the following characteristics:

  • One, a dictatorial leader, often called charismatic, who has total and unlimited control over his group.
  • Two, followers who have abdicated the right to say no, the right to pass judgment, the right to protest, who have sold their souls for the security of slavery.
  • Three, possibly the most dangerous doctrine known to our civilization, that the end justifies the means . . . .

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