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Raffles Holmes:

I don’t think, until the time comes.

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Gerry_Spence:

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent.

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Upton Sinclair:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

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James Fenimore Cooper:

It is probable a true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident, than of that reason of which we so much boast.

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Thomas Paine:

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

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Charles de Gaulle:

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

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One member of the coroner’s jury to another, who is being rather obnoxious, in R. Austin Freeman’s The Eye of Osiris:

You’ve got too much of what the cat licks.

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John Ciardi:

The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.

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Charles Caleb Cotton:

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

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Ilhan Omar:

If we are not actively fighting against regressive ideologies, we are contributing to making them grow.

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Jean Kerr:

If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it’s just possible that you haven’t grasped the situation.

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Anthony Bate, in the voice Dr. Sardon:

My dear child, there is no such thing as a perfectly decent human being.

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Honore de Balzac:

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

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Dashiell Hammett:

If a man says a thing often enough, he is very likely to acquire some sort of faith in it sooner or later.

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Shirley Chisholm:

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

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H. M. Tomlinson:

We see things not as they are, but as we are ourselves.

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James Thurber:

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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William James:

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

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Jonathan Sacks:

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

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Kenneth Boulding:

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

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