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Richard Flanagan:

If 30 Australians drowned in Sydney Harbour, it would be a national tragedy. But when 30 or more refugees drown off the Australian coast, it is a political question.

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November 29, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Mandell Creighton:

No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good.

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November 28, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Bayard Rustin:

We in America reject planning except for the private sector of the economy, so what we have is democratic socialization for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.

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November 27, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Charles Fourier:

Wisdom, virtue, morality, all these have fallen out of fashion: everybody worships at the shrine of commerce.

Aside:

He wrote that a century and a half ago . . . .

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November 26, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Niall Ferguson:

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.

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November 25, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Livy:

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.

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November 24, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Fergus Hume:

After all, Felix Rolleston is not the only man who has been astonished to have greatness thrust upon him and come to believe himself worthy of it.

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November 23, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Kila Markham as Mrs. Morgan and Kenneth Graham as Jude Langham:

Mrs. Morgan: I’ll get you coffee and the paper.
Langham: Just the coffee, I’ve had enough bad news.

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November 22, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Stephen Jay Gould:

I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme positions lies somewhere between them. More fruitful perspectives often require that we step off the line to a site outside the dichotomy.

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November 21, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Charles de Gaulle:

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

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November 20, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Tennessee Williams:

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

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November 19, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield:

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

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November 18, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Margaret Tyzack (in the voice of as Harriet Compton):

Even to this day, I fail to understand your relationship with the Good Lord. If it lives, you criticize it. If it’s dead, pray for it. Seems to be your only pleasure in life.

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November 17, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Daniel Handler, as Lemony Snicket:

Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.

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November 16, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Erik Naggum:

People search for the meaning of life, but this is the easy question: we are born into a world that presents us with many millennia of collected knowledge and information, and all our predecessors ask of us is that we not waste our brief life ignoring the past only to rediscover or reinvent its lessons badly.

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November 15, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Thomas Paine:

Separate an individual from society, and give him an island or a continent to possess, and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end, in all cases, that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man’s own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came.

Via Job’s Anger, which goes on to point out that the rich, though they benefit from society, did not create it and therefore by implication are morally constrained to contribute back to it.

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Such contributions, by the way, are commonly referred to as “taxes.”

(Missing link no longer missing.)

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November 14, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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James Thurber:

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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November 14, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Andre Gide:

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

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November 13, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Epicurus:

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.

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November 12, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |

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Rex Stout, in the voice of Nero Wolfe:

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

Stout, Rex, Champagne for One in a dual volume with Too Many Cooks (New York: Bantam, 2009), p.71

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November 11, 2021 | Posted by: Frank | Posted in: QOTD |
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