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- In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- Peter De Vries
- Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
- C. V. R. Thompson
- No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin
- Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
- Quentin Crisp
- There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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