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- Grief is a species of idleness.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.
- Machiavelli
- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- The wicked at heart probably know something.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
- Whosover loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
- Obviously something slipped through here.
- Reverend John Vaughan, Financial administrator for the Archdiocese of Miami (when asked why they held stock in companies that manufacture contraceptives)
- Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?
- Woody Allen (1935 - ), "Without Feathers"
- History is a set of lies agreed upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
- It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
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