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Jessica Mitford:

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

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Virginia Woolf:

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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Francis Bacon:

He that defers his charity ’till he is dead, is (if a man weighs it rightly) rather liberal of another man’s, than of his own.

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George Orwell:

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

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Samuel Palmer:

The “rights of man” are the right of the less voracious to restrain those who are more so.

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Lisa Ling:

We live in a culture where we’re bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

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Jacques Barzun:

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

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Leslie Weatherhead:

Why do men hug words to their hearts after the living truth has long since fled from them?

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John Larroquette, in the voice of Dan Fielding:

If you can’t laugh at other people, who can you laugh at?

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Elizabeth Gould Davis:

Men insist that they don’t mind women succeeding so long as they retain their “femininity”. Yet the qualities that men consider “feminine” timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement — are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant.

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Dian Fossey:

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

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Eerik-Niiles Kross:

The United States has the luxury of being very far from the front. Unfortunately, information war isn’t geographical — so, America, welcome to the war.

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John G. Azzopardi:

Experience can be merely the repetition of same error often enough.

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Henry A. Wallace:

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

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Thurgood Marshall:

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe:

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

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P, G. Wodehouse:

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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Buzz Burbank, discussing Florida’s “Eon’t Say Gay” law and similar efforts:

Nobody was more woke than Jesus.

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Aaron Sorkin:

People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

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Oliver Heaviside:

We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, “There is a time coming when all things shall be found out.” I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.

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