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- Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
- James Reston (1909 - ), New York Times, June 12 1968
- Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
- Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983), quoted in New York Herald Tribune, May 19, 1946
- The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Breaking into the Writing Game"
- Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
- You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times, Dec. 23, 1929
- Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
- Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Impact of Science on Society (1952) ch. 1
- Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943
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