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Phoebe Atwood Taylor, in the voice of Asey Mayo:

Funny. Civ’lization doesn’t seem like such a swell thing when you’re in it, but when you ain’t got it, it begins t’ appear like there was somethin’ in it after all.

Taylor, Phoebe Atwood, Death Lights a Candle (Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 2005) p. 125

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Audrey Hepburn:

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

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Frank Zappa:

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra, as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

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Hypatia:

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

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Pythagoras:

No man is free who cannot control himself.

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Bradley Denton:

A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.

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Sam Rayburn:

You’ll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don’t have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

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Andrew Hutchison:

During the election, Prime Minister Harper ended some of his speeches with the words “God bless Canada.” Indeed, the prophet Isaiah says that God blesses you when you “share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house” (Isaiah 58.7). We urge the Prime Minister to spend tax dollars now in a way that will bring the homeless poor into their own house, and allow them the dignity of sharing their bread with others.

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Tacitus:

It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.

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Loretta Young:

I’m not sure the public knows what it wants.

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David Jason, in the voice of Detective Inspector Frost:

They can put a man on the moon, but they still can’t stop your nose running, can they?

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Blake Edwards:

Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race.

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W. E. B. Du Bois:

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

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Martin Buber:

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

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VIrginia Woolf:

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

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Christopher Lee:

We don’t live in a particularly attractive world. I don’t really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.

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Jame Stewart, in the voice of David:

Don’t look for trouble where there isn’t any, because, if you don’t find it, you’ll make it.

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Stanley Kubrick:

There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

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Henry Fountain Ashurst:

No man is fit to be a Senator… unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.

Afterthought:

Methinks these words ipso facto disqualify many current Senators.

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Justine Musk:

I love how feminism is often blamed for giving women too many choices. Like this is a bad thing.

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