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- What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- Man is more ape than many of the apes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun commenting on bureaucracy
- It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
- I don't really trust a sane person.
- Pro football lineman Lyle Alzado
- The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.
- Benito Mussolini
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