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- All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.
- Adam Richardson
- The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
- Rod Serling (1924 - 1975)
- Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
- Pliny the Elder (23 AD - 79 AD)
- Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
- Henri de Montherlant
- I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
- Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
- Jimmy Cannon
- A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
- Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
- Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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