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- The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
- Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006)
- Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.
- Marilyn Manson (1969 - ), I Don't Like The Media But The Media Likes Me - Columbine statement
- Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
- I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
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