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Wendell Wilkie:

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

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Max Beerbohm:

He was too much concerned with his own perfection ever to think of admiring any one else.

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Erasmus:

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.

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Josh Billings:

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Harry Blackmun:

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

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Erica Jong:

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.

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Michael Harrington:

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

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Robert Gilpin:

Every dominant state, and particularly an empire, promotes a religion or ideology that justifies its domination over other states in the system.

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Alfred Korzybski:

Humans can be literally poisoned by false ideas and false teachings. Many people have a just horror at the thought of putting poison into tea or coffee, but seem unable to realize that, when they teach false ideas and false doctrines, they are poisoning the time-binding capacity of their fellow men and women.

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H. P. Lovecraft:

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

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Anacharsis:

Written laws are like spiders’ webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

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Anne Bradstreet:

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

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Olasupo Shasore:

Extraordinary people are made out of ordinary people.

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Raghuram Rajan:

Not taking risks one doesn’t understand is often the best form of risk management.

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Vaughan Monroe:

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

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Lawrence J. Peter:

If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

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Bruce Cowan:

Folks who don’t believe in government—populists, people who don’t have faith in the institutions of governance—shouldn’t be in charge of the government.

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Carl Van Doren:

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

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Helmut Kohl:

In a democracy, if you don’t get the votes, nothing else is possible, no matter how wonderful your dreams.

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Richard Wagner:

Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

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