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- It's nice to see a Democrat blow something besides an election.
- Arsenio Hall, after Clinton's saxophone debut on his show
- I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
- J. Edgar Hoover
- I like to play saxophone because you don't inhale.
- Gov. Bill Clinton, on a radio talk show in New York
- Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. It may help us to escape all criticism, we may even be able to deceive ourselves in the belief of our obvious righteousness. But deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or by the moral code.
- Carl G. Jung, in the introduction to Frances G. Wickes' "Analysis der Kinderseele" (The Inner World of Childhood), 1931
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
- The richer your friends, the more they will cost you.
- Elisabeth Marbury
- The enemy came. He was beaten. I am tired. Goodnight.
- Vicomte Turenne, Message sent after the battle of Dunen, 658
- I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.
- Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987)
- He, in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754), "Jonathan Wild"
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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