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- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
- It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers.
- The Clown Prince of Darkness, (correspondence, 1988)
- The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
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