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Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.: Billy Connolly on ABC's "Head Of the Class"
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.: Alain van der Heide
If it is true that words have meanings, why don't we throw away words and keep just the meanings?: Ludwig Wittgenstein via Anatol Holt
...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880), "Madame Bovary", ch. 12
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...: Robert Fulghum (1937 - )
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.: Winnie the Pooh
O words of love, O words divine! The silver thought, the golden line! Of all men's words, there's none so fine, As these three words: 'I've got mine!': Hagar the Horrible
"Where did you put it?" "Put what?" "You know?" "Where do you think?" "Oh.": Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab, stating his ideal model of human-computer interaction
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we have still to make of a study of 'and.': Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944)

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