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Paul Valery:

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

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Jean de la Fontaine:

Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

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Steve Kagen:

If we get public education right, everything else will follow. But if we get it wrong, not much else will matter.

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Bernard Katz:

Organized religion: the world’s largest pyramid scheme.

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William Pitt the Younger:

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

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John Larroquette, in the voice of Dan Fielding:

I wouldn’t be running for public office if I didn’t think that there was someone out there who would be willing to buy me.

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Richard Sanders, in the voice of Clark Edwards:

There is always something wrong.

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Barney Frank:

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.

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Sidney Poitier:

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

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John Larroquette, in the voice of Dan Fielding:

I’m a lawyer, for God’s sake. I was trained to ruin people’s lives, not save them.

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Allan Bloom:

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.

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Siegfried Sassoon:

For war is hell, and those who institute it are criminals.

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Eric Hoffer:

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

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Allan Sherman:

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

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Heraclitus:

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

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H. G. Wells:

Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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Marsha Warfield, in the voice of Roz Russell:

It’s his inalienable right the make an ass of himself.

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Carl Eckart:

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.

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Charles Baudelaire:

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign.

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Alberto Moravia:

When you aren’t sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that’s the basic principle of every faith.

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