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- To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
- Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
- If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
- Phyllis Diller
- Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.
- Bruce Grocott (1940 - )
- Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
- You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
- Dave Barry (1947 - )
- Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
- Howard Aiken (1900 - 1973)
- The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
- Nora Ephron
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