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- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
- Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- We're actors - we're the opposite of people.
- Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
- Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
- Kenneth Tynan
- The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Brothers in Arms"
- Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave
- Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money.
- David Richerby
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