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- I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
- The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
- The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel
- People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
- A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
- Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey
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