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- Destiny...is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved
- William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
- Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977)
- God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
- Philip Wylie
- Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
- W.C. Fields
- A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.
- S.J. Perelman
- A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype
- Jean-Michel Jarre
- I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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