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- Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.
- From The Last Goon Show of All
- It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
- Sam Levenson (1911 - 1980)
- We have long passed the Victorian era, when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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