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Nile Kinnick:

Religions, convictions, philosophies may differ – widely and bitterly; but never, in my belief, should such differences be allowed to assume the personal aspect. Disassociation from people for such reasons is inexcusable; it is representative of bigotry and intolerance.

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Aeschylus:

It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

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Tina Fey:

It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good.

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Benjamin Disraeli:

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

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Mae West:

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

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Perry Como:

That I can’t relate to today’s music or morals doesn’t make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.

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Anthony Trollope:

High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.

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Robert MacNeil:

Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world.

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John Marshall:

The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

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Gail Collins:

When people say this isn’t the America they grew up in, they’re right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

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Buzz Burbank, quoting a Twit on Twitter:

A lot of people are saying that they won’t take the vaccine because they don’t know what’s in it, but they are first in line to get a McRib.

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Molly Ivins:

Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. I only aim at the powerful. When satire is aimed at the powerless, it is not only cruel — it’s vulgar.

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Buzz Burbank:

Santa Claus is making his list and checking it twice. Still, Trump is demanding a recount.

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John Nettles, in the voice of Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby:

I preferred my doubts to your certainties.

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Cato the Elder:

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

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Keith Olbermann:

An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.

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Clarence Darrow:

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it.

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Robert Mapplethorpe:

I always thought I was good. That’s why it was so frustrating when other people didn’t agree.

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John Dos Passos:

One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.

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B. B. King:

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

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