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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
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-- Margaret Atwood What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
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-- Virginia Woolf "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
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I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Flannery O'Connor Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
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