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- How should they answer?
- Abigail Van Buren in reply to the question: "Why do Jews always answer a question with a question?"
- The world is proof that God is a committee.
- Bob Stokes
- The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- Stupidity is the devil. Look in the eye of a chicken and you'll know. It's the most horrifying, cannibalistic, and nightmarish creature in this world.
- Werner Herzog
- For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.
- Hans Konig
- If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
- Soichiro Honda
- The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen, and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean that you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
- Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
- Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.
- William Randolph Hearst, to Frederic Remington
- He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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