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Peter Senge:

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

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Daniel Defoe:

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

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Edward Teller:

There’s no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool.

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Noam Shipancer, on the topic of “positive thinking”:

If you are falling, there’s no use in telling yourself that you’ve learned how to fly.

Shipancer, Noam, “Laws of Emotional Mastery” (Psychology Today, June 2021), p. 54.

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W. E. B. Du Bois:

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

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Bertrand Russell:

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, more even than death.

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Harry Shearer:

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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Fergus Hume:

No man is a hero to his relatives.

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Rene Descartes:

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

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Salvador Dali:

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

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Juvenal:

No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.

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Helene Deutsch:

After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.

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Thom Chadbon as Charles King and John Nettles as DCI Tom Barnaby:

Barnaby: You married, Mr. King?
King: Oh, relentlessly.

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Erma Bombeck:

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

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Elizabeth Loftus:

In real life, as well as in experiments, people can come to believe things that never really happened.

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Stephen Kinzer:

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

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Carolyn Jones, as Morticia Addams:

A watched cauldron never bubbles.

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Buzz Burbank:

If you make a lot of money, someday you’ll be able to buy a Manchin.

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Gideon Welles:

It is vain to expect a well-balanced government without a well-balanced society.

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Hans Rosling:

There’s no room for facts when our minds are occupied by fear.

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