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- Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
- Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
- Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.
- Noel Coward (1899 - 1973)
- Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939)
- Living in California adds ten years to a man's life. And those extra ten years I'd like to spent in New York.
- Harry Ruby
- Dinner theater is anti-culture.
- John Simon
- ...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded...
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), _Phaedrus_
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