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- Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us.
- Connie Chung to Johnny Carson
- How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?
- Johnny Carson to Connie Chung
- To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."
- Margaret "Stevie" Smith
- How should they answer?
- Abigail Van Buren in reply to the question: "Why do Jews always answer a question with a question?"
- The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.
- Werner Herzog
- For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.
- Hans Konig
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