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- Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain.
- Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974), describing his first skydive
- 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
- When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn't like it and didn't inhale and never tried it again.
- Gov. Bill Clinton
- 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
- Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's; and unto human beings, what?
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)
- It's a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
- Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
- It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
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