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Eerik-Niiles Kross:

The United States has the luxury of being very far from the front. Unfortunately, information war isn’t geographical — so, America, welcome to the war.

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John G. Azzopardi:

Experience can be merely the repetition of same error often enough.

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Henry A. Wallace:

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

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Thurgood Marshall:

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe:

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

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P, G. Wodehouse:

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

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Buzz Burbank, discussing Florida’s “Eon’t Say Gay” law and similar efforts:

Nobody was more woke than Jesus.

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Aaron Sorkin:

People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

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Oliver Heaviside:

We do not dwell in the Palace of Truth. But, as was mentioned to me not long since, “There is a time coming when all things shall be found out.” I am not so sanguine myself, believing that the well in which Truth is said to reside is really a bottomless pit.

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Friedrich List:

The nation … must sacrifice some present advantages in order to insure to itself future ones.

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Hilary Bettis:

If you and your children were starving, if you saw violence and murder every single day, and just on the horizon is a safe country where people are allowed to dream, can make a decent living, of course you would cross the border. Any mother or father in their right mind would. We need to have compassion for this.

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Gabriel García Márquez:

. . . a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth . . .

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Democritus:

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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Vera Brittain:

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

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M. H. Abrams:

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

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Peter Scolari, in the voice of Michael Harris:

I guess somehow the world seems like a nicer place when you don’t know what’s going on in it.

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Anton Chekhov:

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

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Alexander Hamilton:

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

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Roberta Flack:

Our criteria for deciding what’s good and what’s bad is very fickle, especially in this country.

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Elizabeth Taylor:

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

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