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- Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
- T.S. Eliot
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989)
- Of course, the person I was fleeing most fearfully was myself, for I drive, and I'm burning a collapsed barn behind the house next week because it is much the cheapest way to deal with it, and I live on about four hundred times the money that Thoreau conclusively proved was enough, so I've done my share to take this independent, eternal world and turn it into a science fair project.
- Bill McKibbon, "The End of Nature"
- When vultures watching your civilization begin dropping dead, it is time to pause and wonder.
- David Brower
- The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
- P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975)
- Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.
- Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC)
- Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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