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- The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- There nearly always is a method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The tendencies of democracies are, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge and principles of the majority form the tribunal of the appeal.
- James Fenimore Cooper
- If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
- James Fenimore Cooper
- I got the bill foe my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for.
- James H. Boren
- Millions say the apple fell but Newton was the only one to ask why.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- With luck and resolution and good guidance.. the human mind can survive not only poverty, nut even wealth.
- Gilbert Highet
- Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
- Irene Peter
- Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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