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Peter Thomas:

Where there is money, there is often corruption.

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Shirley MacLaine:

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

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Marilyn Frye:

Men see with arrogant eyes which organize everything seen with reference to themselves and their own interests.

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H. G. Wells:

If we don’t end war, war will end us.

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Gerald W. Johnson:

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.

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Albert Jay Nock:

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests — if you try to feed it with a shovel you get bad results.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart:

There is no such thing as civilization as a warlike people. There are peaceful people, or aggressive people, or military people, but there are none that do not prefer peace to war, until, inflamed and roused by those above them who play this game of empires, they must don the panoply of battle, and go forth.

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Constantin Brunner:

Men are forever doing two things at the same time: acting egoistically and talking moralistically.

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Terry Eagleton:

The present is only understandable through the past, with which it forms a living continuity; and the past is always grasped from our own partial viewpoint within the present.

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Virginia Woolf:

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

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Caroline Graham, in the voice of Cully Barnaby:

I’ve no problem with with people who are insincerely pleasant. It’s the sincerely unpleasant who get up my nose.

Graham, Caroline, A Ghost in the Machine (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004), p. 221.

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu:

The world will never be without sin, poverty, and attorneys.

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Chandra Shekhar:

There comes a time when one has to choose whether to kneel and be blessed, or to stand up and be counted. I choose the latter.

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Joni Mitchell:

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

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Letitia Baldridge:

For every step forward in electronic communications, we’ve taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We’re too self-obsessed.

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Hippocrates:

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

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Lloyd Alexander:

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.

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Frank Zappa:

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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Gil Scott-Heron:

Everything that’s bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that’s the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

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Michael Pollan:

I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.

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