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- Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an Art.
- Charles McCabe, San Francisco Chronicle
- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
- Charlotte Whitton
- Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity.
- Charles Ives
- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
- Chief Justice Earl Warren
- Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month-Club.
- Melvin Belli on the occasion of his getting kicked out of the American Bar Association
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