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- One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
- Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
- A poem is no place for an idea.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), Country Town Sayings, 1911
- I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907
- Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain In Eruption
- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
- Jack Handey (1949 - )
- Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
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