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There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time,

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies

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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. – Robertson Davies

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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. – Robertson Davies

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Most people know more about their own elected officials via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbors via conversation, and many know more about the celebrities via tabloids than they know about their own representatives via voting booklets. – Terri Guillemets, 2007

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If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live. – Simon Mainwaring

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In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves. – Curt Schilling

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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are societys tools, neither more nor less. – Henrik Ibsen

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