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Nora Ephron:

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

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Theodore Roosevelt:

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

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Bob Cesca:

Libertarianism is like Scientology for politics.

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will Rogers:

We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that’s overfilled with everything we want.

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John Diefenbaker:

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

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John Gray:

The mass of mankind is ruled not by its intermittent moral sensations, still less by self-interest, but by the needs of the moment.

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Natsume Soseki:

Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting people off. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around. Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension. There is no getting around it—people are hard to live with.

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Jerry Coyne:

Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.

Aside:

I must say, it is somewhat disconcerting to run across a Wikiquote page for someone you once knew. Of course, he wouldn’t remember me on a bet, but we went to the same college and were casual acquaintances.

I recognized even then that he was brilliant.

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Eddie Cantor:

It takes twenty years to make an overnight success.

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William H. Seward:

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

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Steven Kampmann, in the voice of Kirk Devane:

I hate when things don’t go exactly as I planned.

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Pliny the Younger:

The lust of lucre has so totally seized upon mankind, that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth.

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Vincent Price:

A man who limits his interests, limits his life.

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Brian Karem:

Freedom without responsibility is just a child whining about its toy.

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Calvin Coolidge:

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

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Carolyn Wells:

If you don’t want a question asked of you, ask it yourself of somebody else.

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Harlan Stone:

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

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Bob Newhart, in the voice of Dick Loudon:

It’s people like you who give people a bad name.

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Avery Brooks:

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

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George Gershwin:

Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.

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