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- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- Canada is a country so square that even the female impersonators are women.
- Richard Benner
- Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
- Aldo Leopold
- What once were vices are manners now.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- He's a complete and total psychopath. I don't mean that in the criminal sense, of course, but in a professional sense. People like that will do anything to hold on to their jobs.
- Liz Trotta on Dan Rather
- Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years.
- Liz Trotta on John Chancellor
- One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
- The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
- Kenneth Patchen
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