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- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), Journal, 1772
- Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
- Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992
- The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
- Michael Friedman
- I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
- Rita Rudner
- Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.
- Sue Murphy
- An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
- Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
- The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
- John Blake
- The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
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