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Callum Woodhouse, in the voice of Tristan Farnon:

The one advantage of knowing nothing is that anything seems possible.

Afterthought:

Methinks he hath most inadvertently hit upon the secret ingredient in the QAnon stew.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald:

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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Salvador Dali:

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

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Immanuel Kant:

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

(Rescheduled after having been improperly scheduled.)

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Voltaire:

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Afterthought:

Q. E. D.

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Michel de Montaigne:

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

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Stephen Fry:

The beauty of the brain is that you can still be as greedy as you like for knowledge and it doesn’t show.

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Hank Aaron:

It took me 17 years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

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Langston Hughes:

I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see,
why Democracy means, everybody but me.

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Denis Diderot:

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates.

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Plutarch:

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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Felix Frankfutter:

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

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William Zinsser:

We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.

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John Dos Passos:

Humanity has a strange fondness for following processions. Get four men following a banner down the street, and, if that banner is inscribed with rhymes of pleasant optimism, in an hour, all the town will be afoot, ready to march to whatever tune the leaders care to play.

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Virginia Woolf:

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

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Albie Woodington, in the voice of Sergeant Warden:

These are desperate times, Brother. Desperate men don’t think.

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Peter Ustinov:

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.

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David Ogilvy*:

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It’s the only really dishonest kind of advertising that’s left. It’s totally dishonest.

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*And he would know.

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Aeschines:

He is specially deserving of our hatred, in that being wicked he has all the outward signs of virtue.

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Fiona Gillies, in the voice of Susanna Aurifaber:

In this world, what receive and what we deserve are rarely the same.

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