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H. G. Wells:

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

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Fergus Hume, in the voice of Sir Harry Brace:

I see that, like all fanatics, you distort texts and sayings into fitting your own peculiar views.

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Richard Johnson, in the voice of Rex Masters:

I’m not prepared to be the pariah just to keep the hypocrites feeling happily self-righteous.

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Steve Allen:

To those who wish to punish others — or at least to see them punished, if the avengers are too cowardly to take matters into their own hands — the belief in a fiery, hideous hell appears to be a great source of comfort.

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Voltaire:

A witty saying proves nothing.

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Fergus Hume, describing a cunning conniver:

In spite of all his cunning, he usually burnt his fingers at a twice-touched flame.

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Emile Durkheim:

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

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Charles Kuralt:

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

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William E. Gladstone:

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

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Albert Camus:

Mistaken ideas always end in bloodshed, but in every case it is someone else’s blood. That is why some of our thinkers feel free to say just about anything.

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Ted Williams:

If you don’t think too good, don’t think too much.

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Isaac Asimov:

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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Penn Jilette:

I don’t question things that go against what I believe very much. But boy, the stuff that I really want to believe, I really question a lot.

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Polybius:

All things are subject to decay and change.

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Marcus Aurelius:

He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man’s acts.

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Fawn M. Brodie:

A man’s memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.

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Gertrude Stein:

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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Richard Rohr:

Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it.

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

Courtesy is one’s own affair, but decency is a debt to life.

Stout, Rex, Too Many Cooks (New York: Bantam, 2009), p. 61.

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William Feather:

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.

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