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- The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism.
- Norman Brenner
- No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
- Harold Rosenberg
- An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
- Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
- As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
- Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
- I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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