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Clay Shirky:

When we change the way we communicate, we change society.

(And not always for the better.)

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Saul Alinsky:

The ninth rule of the ethics of means and ends is that any effective means is automatically judged by the opposition as being unethical.

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Edward Petherbridge, in the voice of Lord Peter Wimsey:

The only kind of wisdom that has any social use is the knowledge of one’s own limitations.

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Anthony Trollope:

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

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Daniel Bell:

What makes the spectacle of Western bourgeois society so repulsive is the waste and squander of resources on needless products of status or display (e.g., the large, heavy automobile; the extravagant packaging of consumer items) for the sake of consumption.

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William O. Douglas:

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

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William Blake:

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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Nadine Gordimer:

The facts are always less than what really happened.

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Susan Ertz:

Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don’t mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.

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Barbara G. Walker:

Is it really true that religion makes people more kindly, generous, or loving? History tends to disprove this. The worst wars, the most vicious Inquisitions, the cruelest pogroms and persecutions, were both fomented and supported by religion.

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Jeremy Taylor:

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

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Spencer Tracy:

Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things.

Plumbing is.

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I think that the quote below from a television sitcom that aired over two decades ago succinctly summarizes the philosophy of today’s Republican Party.

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Kurt Vonnegut:

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

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Zachary Taylor:

If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party–I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

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Chris Hedges:

The relationship between those who are constantly watched and tracked and those who watch and track them is the relationship between masters and slaves.

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Peter Davison, in the voice of Albert Campion:

If you are a very wealthy man, you don’t do your own stealing. You don’t do your own anything; otherwise there’s very little point in being wealthy.

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Georges Danton:

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

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Helen Hayes:

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

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James Randi:

Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

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