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Michael Beschloss:

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

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Paul Glover:

Action without theory is reckless; theory without action is worthless.

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Mary Wollstonecraft:

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

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H. L. Mencken:

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

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Herodotus:

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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E. B. White:

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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Soren Kierkegaard:

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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Philip N. Davey:

. . . I am reminded that in the heart of every capitalist lives the soul of a monopolist.

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H. L. Mencken:

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

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Martin Amis:

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational — to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he’s really proud of.

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Tamzin Malleson, in the voice of Kate Wilding:

Know why women make the best belly dancers? Because we’re always tiptoeing around the male ego.

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Robert Quillen:

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

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John Oliver:

In science, you don’t just get to cherry-pick the parts that justify what you were going to do anyway! That’s religion! You’re thinking of religion.

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Blaise Pascal:

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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John Holt:

The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.

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Wilbur Wright:

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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Rex Stout:

Efforts to censor what people read are not justified under the American system.

Quoted from a speech attended by John Jakes in Jakes’s introduction
to Stout, Rex, Over My Dead Body (New York: Bantam, 1993), p. vii.

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Branch Rickey:

Luck is the residue of design.

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Peter Ustinov:

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.

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Alfred Bester:

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

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