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- The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
- Russell Green
- Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
- The computer is a moron.
- Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
- A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
- I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
- In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
- Thomas Pickering (1931 - )
- Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.
- Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
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