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- Avarice is the sphincter of the heart.
- Matthew Green (c. 1737)
- The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- ... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ...
- D. A. F. Sade, "Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man"
- A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
- James Gould Cozzens
- Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
- Roy Blount Jr.
- I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".
- H. Allen Smith
- It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
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