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- How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.
- Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
- In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
- Ben Hecht (1893 - 1964)
- The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton
- We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?
- Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) to Col. Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove
- Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class.
- Hans Konig
- If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- Come quickly, I am tasting stars!
- Dom Perignon, at the moment of his discovery of champagne
- Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
- Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper editor
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