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Steven Kampmann, in the voice of Kirk Devane:

I hate when things don’t go exactly as I planned.

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Pliny the Younger:

The lust of lucre has so totally seized upon mankind, that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth.

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Vincent Price:

A man who limits his interests, limits his life.

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Brian Karem:

Freedom without responsibility is just a child whining about its toy.

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Calvin Coolidge:

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

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Carolyn Wells:

If you don’t want a question asked of you, ask it yourself of somebody else.

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Harlan Stone:

Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.

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Bob Newhart, in the voice of Dick Loudon:

It’s people like you who give people a bad name.

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Avery Brooks:

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

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George Gershwin:

Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.

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Patrick Malahide, in the voice of Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn:

It’s always the way, isn’t it? There are those who take and those who give.

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Len Deighton:

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

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Mary Frann, as Joanna Loudon:

She just wants to come over and pick your brain. How long can that take?

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John Kenneth Galbraith:

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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H. G. Wells:

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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William James:

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

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Arnold J. Toynbee:

The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

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Herman Melville:

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

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Herman Melville:

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

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John Crawford, in the voice of Vern Hackler:

There ain’t no problems that a few boilermakers can’t solve.

Afterthought:

I drank a boilermaker once. I spent the rest of the party sitting on the floor, back propped against the wall, watching the party go by. I rather enjoyed it in a hazy kind of way, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

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