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- Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.
- Stendhal
- A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
- Thomas B. Reed
- Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.
- St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695)
- How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
- Gioacchino Rosini
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
- Listen, there is no courage or any extra courage that I know of to find out the right thing to do. Now, it is not only necessary to do the right thing, but to do it in the right way and the only problem you have is what is the right thing to do and what is the right way to do it. That is the problem. But this economy of ours is not so simple that it obeys to the opinion of bias or the pronouncements of any particular individual, even to the President. This is an economy that is made up of 173 million people and it reflects their desires, they're ready to buy, they're to spend, it is a thing that is too complex and too big to be affected adversely or advantageously just by a few words or any particular - say a little this and that, or even a panacea so alleged.
- Dwight David Eisenhower
- Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight David Eisenhower
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