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- Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
- Laurens Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
- In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
- Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
- Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
- Dame Edna Everage (1934 - ), In a television interview with Joan Rivers
- Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004), Dear Me (1977)
- I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
- Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
- Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)
- Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
- I. F. Stone (1907 - 1989)
- Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), Vedanta for the Western World, 1945
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