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- Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Emotions"
- If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
- Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
- Lillian Carter, in her 80s
- All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel
- Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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