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Sidney Poitier:

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

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John Larroquette, in the voice of Dan Fielding:

I’m a lawyer, for God’s sake. I was trained to ruin people’s lives, not save them.

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Allan Bloom:

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

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Siegfried Sassoon:

For war is hell, and those who institute it are criminals.

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Eric Hoffer:

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

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Allan Sherman:

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

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Heraclitus:

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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H. G. Wells:

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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Marsha Warfield, in the voice of Roz Russell:

It’s his inalienable right the make an ass of himself.

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Carl Eckart:

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

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Charles Baudelaire:

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign.

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Alberto Moravia:

When you aren’t sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that’s the basic principle of every faith.

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I. F. Stone:

Rich people march on Washington every day.

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Albert Camus:

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

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Frangela, talking about Elon Musk, Bill Maher, and their ilk:

He’s not an advocate of free speech. He’s an advocate of having the audience being forced to listen to him.

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Nancy Astor:

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

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Robert Bakker:

You could arm-wrestle with a T. rex and win, but you shouldn’t because it only makes them mad.

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J. K. Simmons:

I’ve had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I’m disdainful of blind authority.

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Jeff Corey, in the voice of Judge Hirsch:

This is a court of law, Judge Stone. This is not a place for truth. This is a place for lies. Everybody who comes here lies.

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Otto von Bismarck:

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

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