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- Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
- The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
- Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
- I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
- Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
- Thomas Berger
- The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby (1937 - )
- Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
- Robert Byrne
- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
- David Letterman (1947 - )
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