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- As if there were safety in stupidity alone.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- ...a man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.
- James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
- I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once.
- Madonna (1958 - )
- The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
- Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
- There is not enough religion in the world to destroy the world's religions.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A careless speech writer includes the word "paradigm" in President Reagan's speech on superconductivity. Yes, he pronounces it "paradijum."
- from _The_Clothes_Have_No_Emperor_ by Paul Slansky
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