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- Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
- Trotsky
- Walking women want to see the southern cross at night And so they set aside a sock, and tie their laces tight Yes mournful is the melody that echoes in their heads Without a beat they march along, believing Bach is dead.
- The Residents "Duck Stab":Bach is Dead
- J.P Morgan, when asked what the stock market will do, replied,
- It will fluctuate.
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
- It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers.
- The Clown Prince of Darkness, (correspondence, 1988)
- The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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