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Bernard Baruch:

Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

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Jonathan Swift:

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

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Jean Giraudoux:

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

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Ernest Gellner:

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

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Red Auerbach:

You handle animals. You deal with people.

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Herodotus:

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.

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Richard Cordray:

It makes me mad to see people in government serving themselves at our expense.

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Lawrence Dobkin, in the voice of Ellery Queen:

I dedicate this program to the fight against crime. Not only crimes of violence and crimes of dishonesty, but also crimes of intolerance, discrimination, and bad citizenship. Crimes against America.

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Samuel Gompers:

The man who receives five thousand dollars a year wants six thousand dollars a year, and the man who owns eight or nine hundred thousand dollars will want a hundred thousand dollars more to make it a million, while the man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.

For context, this was said in 1890.

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Emily Greene Balch:

Men who are scandalized at the lack of freedom in Russia do not ask themselves how real is liberty among the poor, the weak, and the ignorant in capitalist society.

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Horace Mann:

Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

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Earl Warren:

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

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William Finnegan:

For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.

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Kenneth L. Pike:

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.

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Don Marquis:

If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.

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Bill Vaughan:

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart:

When they (wounded soldiers in trenches on the Western Front in WWI–ed.) cannot get water from the canteens, they drink what is in the bottom of the trench.

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Victor Hugo:

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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Grover Cleveland:

The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.

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Rod Serling:

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

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