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David Brewster:

It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man . . . .

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I. F. Stone:

Rich people march on Washington every day.

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Montserrat Lombard, as Philomena Bell:

Philomena: Seb said it’s the modern disease.

Inspector Barnaby: What?

Philomena: Chronic dissatisfaction.

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Thomas Szasz:

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

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Kerry Greenwood, who makes words dance:

The newly promoted Peace’s youthful enthusiasm occasionally filled (Detective Inspector Minton) with a sense of how old and cynical he had become. Without noticing. One day he just woke up and there he was, old and cynical and getting short of hair.

Greenwood, Kerry, Death by Water (Scpttsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2010), p. 199.

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John Locke:

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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Margaret MacMillan:

Dictators, perhaps because they know their own lies so well, have usually realised the power of history. Consequently, they have tried to re-write, deny, or destroy the past.

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Ricky Gervais:

There’s no difference between fame and infamy now. There’s a new school of professional famous people that don’t do anything.

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Arnold J. Toynbee:

The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

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Geraldine Brooks:

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

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Martin Rees:

When I discover I’m wrong, I change my mind. What do you do?

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Kerry Greenwood:

Phryne had no use for guilt. It prevented sensible action.

Greenwood, Kerry, Queen of the Flowers (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2008), p. 150.

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Antistehenes:

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

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David Garrick:

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

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John Locke:

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts

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Len Deighton:

When old men decided to barter young men for pride and profit, the transaction was called war.

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Kerry Greenwood:

She prized small courtesies, because they were the only ones she ever received.

Greenwood, Kerry, Queen of the Fairies (Scottsdale, AZ: Poisoned Pen Press, 2008), p. 14.

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Peter Bergen:

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn’t exactly a secret anyway.

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Hwnning Mankell:

My father thought, and now I think too, that the system of democracy is entirely based upon the system of justice. If we do not have a system of justice that people believe in, the system of democracy will fail.

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Stanley Kubrick:

I don’t like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what’s even worse, of being quoted exactly.

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