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- In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
- Henry James (1843 - 1916)
- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
- Juan Ramon Jiminez
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
- Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
- Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
- Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994), From "Betting on the Muse"
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
- J. Frank Dobie (1888 - 1964), "A Texan in England", 1945
- Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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