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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), "Heretics", 1905
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.: Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.: Rita Rudner
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Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.: Sue Murphy
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), in Edward R. Murrow television interview
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