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- When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) Act III
- Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
- The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), "Job", 1984
- The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), New York Times, Oct. 28, 1973
- Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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