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- The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836), The Federalist Papers, 1788
- How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- One reassuring thing about modern art is that things can't be as bad as they are painted.
- M. Walthall Jackson
- You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
- Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.
- Felix Cohen
- Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), 4 BC-65 AD
- In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967)
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