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Friedrich List:

The nation … must sacrifice some present advantages in order to insure to itself future ones.

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Hilary Bettis:

If you and your children were starving, if you saw violence and murder every single day, and just on the horizon is a safe country where people are allowed to dream, can make a decent living, of course you would cross the border. Any mother or father in their right mind would. We need to have compassion for this.

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Gabriel García Márquez:

. . . a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth . . .

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Democritus:

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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Vera Brittain:

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

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M. H. Abrams:

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

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Peter Scolari, in the voice of Michael Harris:

I guess somehow the world seems like a nicer place when you don’t know what’s going on in it.

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Anton Chekhov:

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

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Alexander Hamilton:

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

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Roberta Flack:

Our criteria for deciding what’s good and what’s bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

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Elizabeth Taylor:

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

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David Ferguson:

Republicans say they love America, but they hate Americans. . . . They’ve mistaken nationalism for patriotism.

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Carl Van Doren:

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

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Hyman G. Rickover:

To doubt one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don’t defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don’t be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

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Raj Patel:

The opposite of consumption isn’t thrift. It’s generosity.

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Dwight Eisenhower:

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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Peter Scolari, in the voice of Michael Harris:

It’s fine to do a tradition once, but, after that, they get kind of repetitive and restrictive.

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Peter Drucker:

There can be no freedom if one man or one group of men… is assumed… inherently perfect or perfectible. Its claim to perfection or perfectibility is a claim to absolute rule.

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Robert Schumann:

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

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Joan Baez:

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

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