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- One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
- Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
- Heywood Broun (1888 - 1939), Sitting on the World, 1924
- Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain In Eruption
- There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
- Terry Pratchett
- To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
- Robert Copeland
- We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
- The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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