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The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
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Bob Edwards
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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Dan Rather (1931 - )
If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will fail. If you make something special and powerful and honest and true, you will succeed.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 6, 08-22-04
Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.
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Bagdikian's Observation
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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E. Joseph Cossman
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
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Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
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Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988)
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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Rita Rudner
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
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King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
The more you know, the less you need.
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Aboriginal Saying
I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.
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Duke Ellington (1899 - 1974)
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
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Albert Pine
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881), July 12, 1880
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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