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Tamzin Malleson, as Kate Wilding:

You know why women make the best ballet dancers? Because we’re always tiptoeing around the male ego.

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Douglas MacArthur:

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

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Dr. Jorgenson in The Sign of the Beast (I was unable to figure out which actor voiced the part):

One man’s nonsense is another man’s devoutly held belief.

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William James:

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

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Samuel Johnson:

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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Hunter S. Thompson:

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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Felix Frankfurter:

It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of ‘laws’ to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.

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Will Rogers:

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

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Virginia Woolf:

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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Anais Nin:

To lie, of course, is to engender insanity.

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Unknown (cited by Jason Whiting):

Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.

Whiting, Jason, “Talking to Difficult People,” (Psychology Today, December 2020), p. 54.

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Graucho Marx:

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

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Shannon Purser:

You never think about someone dressing up as you for Halloween.

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Robert van Gulik:

. . . just enough is better than too little.

van Gulik, Robert, The Chinese Maze Murders (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), p. 103.

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Neil Dudgeon, in the voice of Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby:

That is a sense of community, Jones. One goes mad, they all go mad.

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June Whitfield, in the voice of Jane Marple:

I’m afraid that, after observing human nature as long as I have done, one gets not to expect much from it.

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Werner Herzog:

I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.

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Kerry Greenwood, in the voice Tom Ventura:

I remember being bored. It was nice. I didn’t appreciate it at the time.

Greenwood, Kerry, Murder in the Dark (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2009), p. 5

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Peter Ustinov:

Politicians only get to the top because they have no qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

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Alexis de Tocqueville:

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

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