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- My heart is pure as the driven slush.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
- William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Even paranoids have real enemies.
- Delmore Schwartz
- Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- I desire the Poles carnally.
- President Jimmy Carter's mistranslation in a 1977 speech in Poland
- That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
- Lester Maddox, ex-governor of Georgia
- No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), 1946
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