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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid; you must also be well-mannered.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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William James (1842 - 1910)
I'd take a Bromo, but I can't stand the noise.
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W.C. Fields
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.
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E.M. Cioran
For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.
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Gore Vidal (1925 - )
Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave.
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ad slogan 'Pepsi Comes Alive' as initially translated into Chinese
I desire the Poles carnally.
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President Jimmy Carter's mistranslation in a 1977 speech in Poland
1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him.
2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi."
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5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually.
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from an official Japanese guide for English-speaking drivers, 1936
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be.
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Simon Newcomb (declared in 1901)
I paint paintings because I can't get the experience in any other way but there are many more experiences that are equally satisfying to me and equally inept at answering all my questions, but hover in exactitude in describing themselves and defying me to define their logic.
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Julian Schnabel
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