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- Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.
- General George Patton
- Plumpick: Don't you understand, the whole town will blow up in three minutes!
Columbine: Yes--they will be wonderful, those three minutes. - "The King of Hearts"
- Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
- Arlo Guthrie (1947 - )
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953
- A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
- Edward Teller (1908 - 2003)
- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.)
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Facts are stupid things.
- Ronald Reagan '88, a slight misquote of John Adams, "Facts are stubborn things."
- Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.
- Sir Ronald A. Fisher
- You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
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