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- The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
- Frank Zappa (1940 - 1993)
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
- Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
- No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
- Harold Rosenberg
- Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
- Frank Moore Colby
- Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
- Charles Peters
- The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
- I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
- John Cleese (1939 - )
- This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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