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- The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- Progress might have been all right once but it has gone on too long.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
- Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
- I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- Man is more ape than many of the apes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun commenting on bureaucracy
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