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- Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/22/89
- This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt
- What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
- Anonymous
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - )
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