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Christopher Morley:

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, in the voice of Letitia Carberry:

You can’t tell by looking at a toad how far it will hop.

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Frank Herbert:

When a wise man does not understand, he says: “I do not understand.” The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

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William Gladstone:

Liberty is never safe.

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Max Lerner:

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

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Steven Weber:

It’s easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

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A. Conan Doyle, in the voice of Sherlock Holmes:

That head of yours should be for use, as well as ornament.

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Nora Ephron:

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

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Benjamin Harrison:

God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a ‘consumer’ shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with ‘unalienable rights’.

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Philip K. Dick:

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.

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Martin Heidegger:

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.

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Raffles Holmes:

I don’t think, until the time comes.

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Gerry_Spence:

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent.

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Upton Sinclair:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

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James Fenimore Cooper:

It is probable a true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of that reason of which we so much boast.

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Thomas Paine:

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

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Charles de Gaulle:

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

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One member of the coroner’s jury to another, who is being rather obnoxious, in R. Austin Freeman’s The Eye of Osiris:

You’ve got too much of what the cat licks.

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John Ciardi:

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

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Charles Caleb Cotton:

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

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