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- 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
- Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words.
- According to an article in the New York Times
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