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- I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
- Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
- Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.
- Firesign Theatre
- USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
- We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- Every crowd has a silver lining.
- Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
- The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
- Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
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