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- Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time.
- Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92)
- You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.
- Steven Wright (1955 - )
- I can see the time when every city will have one.
- An American mayor's reaction to the news of the invention of the telephone
- Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all.
- Neil Postman
- Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
- Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
- All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
- Jim Fiebig
- In one celebrated incident, 300 members of Church of the New Song requested $6000 worth of filet mignon and Harvey's Bristol Cream for a crucial religious ceremony at the federal prison in Atlanta.
- Legal Times, 2/15/93
- It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.
- John Blasik
- Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
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