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- A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
- Kenneth Tynan
- The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms"
- After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
- Fred Thompson, Speech before the Commonwealth Club of California
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave
- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
- David Richerby
- To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), An Essay on Self-Reliance
- The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), 1903
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