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- A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
- James Reston (1909 - )
- Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
- Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989), Steal This Urine Test
- The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
- Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
- All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
- Principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
- Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
- If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
- Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)
- If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.
- Paul Fussell
- My only aversion to vice, is the price.
- Victor Buono
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