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- The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
- Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
- Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)
- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
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