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- By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- He's a complete and total psychopath. I don't mean that in the criminal sense, of course, but in a professional sense. People like that will do anything to hold on to their jobs.
- Liz Trotta on Dan Rather
- Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years.
- Liz Trotta on John Chancellor
- One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
- The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.
- Kenneth Patchen
- I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
- Of course, the person I was fleeing most fearfully was myself, for I drive, and I'm burning a collapsed barn behind the house next week because it is much the cheapest way to deal with it, and I live on about four hundred times the money that Thoreau conclusively proved was enough, so I've done my share to take this independent, eternal world and turn it into a science fair project.
- Bill McKibbon, "The End of Nature"
- What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
- A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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