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- In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
- Thomas Pickering (1931 - )
- Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - BANG - there you are in someone's living room.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980)
- Take most people, they're crazy about cars. I'd rather have a goddamn horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
- J. D. Salinger (1919 - )
- An economist is an expert who will know tommorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis.
- Robert Heilbroner
- An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- Atheism has no room for human rights.
- U.S. Senate Chaplain Richard Halverson, addressing 600 people at a prayer breakfast, March 1992 in Wisconsin
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