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- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
- I don't mind a little praise - as long as it's fulsome.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to belive it.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- When I became President, what surprised me most was that things were just as bad as I'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
- If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894 - 1971)
- I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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