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- The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.
- Jean-Francois Rameau
- America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
- The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.
- Jim Samuels
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
- The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself
- Sir Richard F. Burton
- A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you will see the electron.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- History, n. An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
- Alex Comfort
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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