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Benjamin Franklin:

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

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Sandy Koufax:

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

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William S. Burroughs:

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say “I want to see the manager.”

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Jean-Baptiste Say:

If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.

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E. L. Doctorow:

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

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Jaron Lanier:

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

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Ian Fleming:

This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

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Bill Vaughan:

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

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Learned Hand:

We believe, and I think properly, that when the men who met in 1787 to make our Constitution they made the best political document ever made; but, remember, they did so very largely because they were great compromisers.

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Michael Beschloss:

Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.

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Paul Glover:

Action without theory is reckless; theory without action is worthless.

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Mary Wollstonecraft:

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

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H. L. Mencken:

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

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Herodotus:

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

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E. B. White:

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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Soren Kierkegaard:

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

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Philip N. Davey:

. . . I am reminded that in the heart of every capitalist lives the soul of a monopolist.

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H. L. Mencken:

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

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Martin Amis:

On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational — to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he’s really proud of.

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Tamzin Malleson, in the voice of Kate Wilding:

Know why women make the best belly dancers? Because we’re always tiptoeing around the male ego.

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