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- Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
- Edward Shepherd Mead
- Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
- Howard Scott (1926 - )
- Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
- Thomas Pickering (1931 - )
- Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
- Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
- It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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