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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#form #more #often #practicality #than

In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him. ↗

— Pontius Pilate

#before #behold #brought #examined #fault

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy. ↗

— Witold Pilecki

#auschwitz #easy #else #finished #i

But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#end #end of the day #i #idiot #learned

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#convinced #diplomats #foreign #future #i

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed. ↗

— Pindar

#every #face #heed #man #often

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt. ↗

— Harold Pinter

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