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- A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." - Stephen Crane
- Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
- The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.
- Gamel Abdel Nasser
- We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
- Dave Barry (1947 - )
- The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- He was a wise man who invented God.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- A person in a uniform is merely an extension of another person's will.
- Philip Slater
- I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
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