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- This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two.
- George Burns (1896 - 1996)
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Under Western Eyes, 1911
- The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
- Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
- Sally Kempton
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
- Bella Abzug (1920 - )
- I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
- Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.
- Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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