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- There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
- Cleveland Amory
- The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.
- Jerry Falwell (1933 - )
- Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
- When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
- Peter De Vries
- The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
- The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
- It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
- Adam Smith (1723 - 1790)
- The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
- E. W. Dijkstra
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