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- It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
- The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
- Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
- Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966), Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)
- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
- Robert Anton Wilson
- A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
- Doug Larson
- Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
- Sam Brown, Washington Post, 1977
- What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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