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- The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.
- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
- Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.
- Jerome Lettvin
- American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.
- Elinor Glyn
- You must believe in God in spite of what the clergy say.
- Benjamin Jowett
- Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
- Calvin Coolidge or Woodrow Wilson
- I don't understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
- Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
- Pleasure, n. The least hateful form of dejection.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Women's liberation will not be achieved until a woman can become paunchy and bald and still think that she's attractive to the opposite sex.
- Earl Wilson
- There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
- P.J. O'Rourke (commenting on _Moby Dick_)
- He grounds the warship he walks on.
- John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
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