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- I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.
- Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
- If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.
- Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955)
- Maude - "The earth is my body, my head is in the stars...Who said that?" Harold- "I don't know." Maude - "Well, I suppose I did."
- Maude (Ruth Gordon) and Harold (Bud Cort), from the movie "Harold & Maude"
- The police.....always wanting to play games.
- Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"
- I believe that much of the world's sorrow is caused by people who are this, but allow themselves to be treated like that.
- Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"
- God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
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