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- To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
- Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
- The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
- There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
- The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
- Lord Acton, Letter to Mary Gladstone, 1881
- A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908 - 1972), "Keep the Faith, Baby!", 1967
- People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
- Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
- An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)
- Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006)
- The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
- Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
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