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Patrick Malahide, in the voice of Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn:

It’s always the way, isn’t it? There are those who take and those who give.

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January 18, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Len Deighton:

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

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January 17, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Mary Frann, as Joanna Loudon:

She just wants to come over and pick your brain. How long can that take?

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January 16, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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John Kenneth Galbraith:

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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January 15, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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H. G. Wells:

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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January 14, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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William James:

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

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January 13, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Arnold J. Toynbee:

The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

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January 12, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Herman Melville:

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

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January 11, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Herman Melville:

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

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January 10, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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John Crawford, in the voice of Vern Hackler:

There ain’t no problems that a few boilermakers can’t solve.

Afterthought:

I drank a boilermaker once. I spent the rest of the party sitting on the floor, back propped against the wall, watching the party go by. I rather enjoyed it in a hazy kind of way, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

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January 9, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Benjamin Franklin:

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

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January 8, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Sandy Koufax:

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

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January 7, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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William S. Burroughs:

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager.”

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January 6, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jean-Baptiste Say:

If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.

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January 5, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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E. L. Doctorow:

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

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January 4, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Jaron Lanier:

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

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January 3, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Ian Fleming:

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

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January 2, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Bill Vaughan:

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

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January 1, 2022 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Learned Hand:

We believe, and I think properly, that when the men who met in 1787 to make our Constitution they made the best political document ever made; but, remember, they did so very largely because they were great compromisers.

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December 31, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Michael Beschloss:

Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.

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December 30, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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