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- Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
- The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
- By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money
- Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
- Frank Tibolt
- Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
- Marilyn Manson (1969 - ), I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statement
- The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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