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- Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit"
- The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.
- Gamel Abdel Nasser
- The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
- John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
- We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
- Dave Barry (1947 - )
- The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons. Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
- Alfred Jarry
- If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.
- Paul Fussell
- Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these
- Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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