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- It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).
- Phyllis Schafly
- Destiny...is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved
- William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
- Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
- I.F. Stone
- The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977)
- I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.
- George Bush (1924 - ), to convention of National Religious Broadcasters
- We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype
- Jean-Michel Jarre
- Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.
- Harry Hershfield
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