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P. T. Barnum:

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

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Hunter S. Thompson:

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

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P. D. James:

If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

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Florence King:

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong.

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Charles Evans Hughes:

No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse.

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John Jay:

It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. The honour of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused.

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Guy de Maupassant:

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

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Auguste Rodin:

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

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Harry Turtledove:

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

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Stephen Leacock:

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

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Johannes Kepler:

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

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Daniel Webster:

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

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Helen Hayes, in the voice of Jane Marple:

I’m afraid that, when an idealist becomes a fanatic, the line between right and wrong becomes a blur.

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V. S. Naipaul:

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

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Saul Alinsky:

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

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Erich Fried:

Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.

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Kirk Douglas:

I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.

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Horace Walpole:

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

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Clarence Darrow:

Man does not live by truth, but by the illusions that his brain conceives.

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Margaret Drabble:

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

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