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- Virtue is insufficient temptation.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
- James Reston (1909 - )
- It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
- Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989), Steal This Urine Test
- I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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