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- Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
- Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
- Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
- John Updike (1932 - )
- Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr
- There are times when you have to choose between being a human and having good taste.
- Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)
- The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
- Ronald Reagan in 1973
- Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick.
- Last words of Spanish playwright Lope de Vega on being assured on his deathbed that the end was very near
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