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David Ferguson:

Republicans say they love America, but they hate Americans. . . . They’ve mistaken nationalism for patriotism.

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Carl Van Doren:

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

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Hyman G. Rickover:

To doubt one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don’t defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don’t be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

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Raj Patel:

The opposite of consumption isn’t thrift. It’s generosity.

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Dwight Eisenhower:

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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Peter Scolari, in the voice of Michael Harris:

It’s fine to do a tradition once, but, after that, they get kind of repetitive and restrictive.

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Peter Drucker:

There can be no freedom if one man or one group of men… is assumed… inherently perfect or perfectible. Its claim to perfection or perfectibility is a claim to absolute rule.

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Robert Schumann:

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

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Joan Baez:

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

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P. T. Barnum:

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

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Hunter S. Thompson:

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

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P. D. James:

If from infancy you treat children as gods they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

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Florence King:

We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong.

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Charles Evans Hughes:

No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse.

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John Jay:

It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. The honour of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused.

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Guy de Maupassant:

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

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Auguste Rodin:

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

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Harry Turtledove:

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.

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Stephen Leacock:

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

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Johannes Kepler:

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

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