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Jeffrey Combs, in the voice of Weyoun 6:

Why be a god if there’s no one to worship you?

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Ovid:

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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Pythagoras:

It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

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Rebecca West:

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

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Isaac Asimov:

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word “intuition.”

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Mary Roberts Rinehart, in the voice of Letitia Carberry:

You haven’t got much mind, or you wouldn’t change it so quickly.

Afterthought:

The more I listen to Mary Roberts Rinehart’s stories, the more impressed I am. She was an excellent writer who could turn a deft phrase.

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Spike Milligan:

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart:

There should be one spot in America free from the advertising man and his schemes . . . .

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Jackie Robinson:

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me. All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

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Victor Hugo:

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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John Hodgman:

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. (Or, for that matter, as true.)

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Benjamin Franklin:

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

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Pearl S. Buck:

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

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Mary Roberts Rinehart:

Every act of one’s life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.

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W, S, Gilbert:

Things are seldom what they seem;Skim milk masquerades as cream.

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Nikola Tesla:

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

(Broken link fixed.)

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Gloria Steinem:

The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.

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Ambrose Bierce:

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

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Alexandre Dumas:

Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.

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Charles Reade:

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.

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