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- Who could follow Carson? Well, believe me, somebody can - and will.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005), Playboy Interview - December 1967
- I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.
- Fidel Castro (1927 - ), Playboy Interview - January 1967
- Never lie when the truth is more profitable.
- Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966)
- Marriage is part of a sort of 50's revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
I never soiled with such a deed. - A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
- The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, 2005, Introduction
- Every law is an infraction of liberty.
- Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962), on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923
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