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- There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
- Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870), fils
- How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.
- Unknown
- Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.
- Irwin Edman
- Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
- Paul Fussell
- You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade.
- Golfer Bobby Jones
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