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- To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
- Hamlet II:ii
- Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Editor: a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to seperate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.
- Anonymous
- I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American.
- 16 Idaho Law Review 407, 420 - 1980.
- I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent.
- Richard Darman
- Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - BANG - there you are in someone's living room.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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