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- Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.
- Mortimer Adler
- (Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids.
- Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
- In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
- Robert Byrne
- Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Unknown
- 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
- The [Interstate Commerce] commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the public clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal.
- Richard Olney, a lawyer for the Boston & Maine and Attorney General under Grover Cleveland, advising a railroad president
- Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L.A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.
- Donna Summer
- The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Son, in war times it is not safe to think unless one travels with the mob.
- Charles Lindberg Sr. to Charles Lindberg Jr. in 1917
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