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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrong. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.: Gore Vidal (1925 - ), Conversations With Gore Vidal - 1981
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.: G. Gordon Liddy
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.: George Wald (1906 - )
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.: John Galsworthy
Disney, of course, has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor, he just tears him up.: Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)

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