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- Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
- Lillian Carter, in her 80s
- Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836)
- All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
- Floyd Dell
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Social Relations"
- There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
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