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George F. Kennan:

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

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December 10, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Montewquieu:

The less men think, the more they talk.

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December 9, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Louis D. Brandeis:

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.

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December 8, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Harpo Marx:

I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist – I played by ear.

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December 7, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Henry Miller:

We do not talk – we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

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December 6, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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W. E. B. Du Bois:

The cause of war is preparation for war.

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December 5, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Fergus Hume:

The illusions of youth are mostly due to the want of experience.

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December 4, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Steve Hofstetter:

There is no center. There’s the left; there’s the right; and there’s apathy.

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December 3, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Empedocles:

What needs [saying] is worth saying twice.

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December 2, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Smedley Butler;

War is a racket. It always has been… A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can’t end it by disarmament conferences. You can’t eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can’t wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

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December 1, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Franklin Pierce Adams:

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

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

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Richard Flanagan:

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

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November 29, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Mandell Creighton:

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

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November 28, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Bayard Rustin:

We in America reject planning except for the private sector of the economy, so what we have is democratic socialization for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.

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November 27, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Charles Fourier:

Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.

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He wrote that a century and a half ago . . . .

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November 26, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Niall Ferguson:

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

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November 25, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Livy:

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.

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November 24, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Fergus Hume:

After all, Felix Rolleston is not the only man who has been astonished to have greatness thrust upon him and come to believe himself worthy of it.

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November 23, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Kila Markham as Mrs. Morgan and Kenneth Graham as Jude Langham:

Mrs. Morgan: I’ll get you coffee and the paper.
Langham: Just the coffee, I’ve had enough bad news.

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November 22, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Stephen Jay Gould:

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.

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November 21, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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