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- An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- With Epcot Center the Disney corporation has accomplished something I didn't think possible in today's world. They have created a land of make-believe that's worse than regular life.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Letter to Gay, October 6, 1727
- It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- A good listener is usually thinking about something else.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
- George Dennison Prentice
- It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
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