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- Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
- Harry Shearer
- When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.
- Otto von Bismarck (1815 - 1898)
- Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
- Alice Kahn
- Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
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