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- A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
- Bill Vaughan
- I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
- Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
- I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.
- Joe Walsh
- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
- A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.
- Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
- Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891, preface
- The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Model Millionaire, 1912
- Only the shallow know themselves.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
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