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« Reply #30 on: October 11, 2014, 11:39:54 AM »
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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« Reply #31 on: October 11, 2014, 11:40:21 AM »
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
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« Reply #32 on: October 11, 2014, 11:40:48 AM »
Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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« Reply #33 on: October 11, 2014, 11:41:16 AM »
The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism.
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« Reply #34 on: October 11, 2014, 11:41:41 AM »
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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« Reply #35 on: October 11, 2014, 11:42:05 AM »
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian and at once the world becomes explicable.
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« Reply #36 on: October 11, 2014, 11:42:32 AM »
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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« Reply #37 on: October 11, 2014, 11:42:57 AM »
Marriage is a wonderful institution but who would want to live in an institution?
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« Reply #38 on: October 11, 2014, 11:43:25 AM »
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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« Reply #39 on: October 11, 2014, 11:43:52 AM »
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
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« Reply #40 on: October 11, 2014, 11:44:18 AM »
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
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« Reply #41 on: October 11, 2014, 11:44:45 AM »
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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« Reply #42 on: October 11, 2014, 11:45:15 AM »
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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« Reply #43 on: October 11, 2014, 11:45:41 AM »
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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« Reply #44 on: October 11, 2014, 11:46:06 AM »
A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.
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