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- The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
- I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.
An elephant's faithful, one hundred percent. - Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), Horton Hatches the Egg
- Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.
- Stanislaw Lem (1921 - 2006), "Holiday", 1963
- The living need charity more than the dead.
- George Arnold, The Jolly Old Pedagogue (1866)
- Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Lincoln's Own Stories
- Things do not change; we change.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1970)
- Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
- The secret of being boring is to say everything.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Discours en vers sur l'homme (1737)
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Heretics (1905)
- I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
- Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
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