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- He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hope for the human condition is a fool.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
- Quentin Crisp
- Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
- John Updike (1932 - )
- When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
- J.P. Donleavy
- Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- Never argue with a fool. Listeners can't tell which is which.
- Unknown
- ...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), (Diary, 1786)
- Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
- Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
- Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- #1597. Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things.
- California Civil Code, "Object of a Contract"
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