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- The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
- Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
- Charlotte Whitton, Canada Month, June 1963
- Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
- Norman Douglas
- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
- George Jean Nathan (1882 - 1958)
- Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
- C. V. R. Thompson
- No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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