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- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Under Western Eyes, 1911
- The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
- Nobody will ever win the Battle of the Sexes. There's just too much fraternizing with the enemy.
- Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
- Bella Abzug (1920 - )
- I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1
- I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
- Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
- If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left.
- David M. Ogilvy
- Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.
- John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)
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