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- People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
- There are more fools in the world than there are people.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
- Ernest Benn
- Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
- Lester B. Pearson (1897 - 1972)
- Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
- Harry Shearer
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