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- Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
- David Broder
- An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
- John Buchan (1875 - 1940)
- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
- James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926
- [Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
- Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
- Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), on the eve of his 75th birthday
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Clarke's first law
- Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
- Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
- When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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