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- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
- Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
- I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
- A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
- Peter McArthur
- Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
- Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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