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- Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Communism is like one big phone company.
- Lenny Bruce (1923 - 1966)
- Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
- Turkish proverb
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977)
- Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
- Leonard Brandwein
- Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table about haircuts, getting jobs and the American dream? Well, our parents won. They're out living the American dream on some damned golf course in Vero Beach, and we're stuck with the jobs and haircuts.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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