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The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over.

Henrik Ibsen

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"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

Albert Einstein

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It is an inevitable defect, that bureaucrats will care more for routine than for results.

Walter Bagehot

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"Advice is judged by results, not by intentions."

Cicero

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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright,

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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

J. R. R. Tolkien

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"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least"

John Harrigan

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"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."

Oscar Levant

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"Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not true. I have the heart of a young boy -- in a jar on my desk."

Stephen King

(I like that quote =P)

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"I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways."

Tim Burton,

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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Hunter S. Thompson, San Francisco Examiner, 1985
US journalist (1939 - 2005)

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"Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."

Karl Marx

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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.

John Kenneth Galbraith
US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - 2006)

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"If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they wouldn't reach any conclusion."

George Bernard Shaw

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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.

Tom Lehrer
US humorist, singer, & songwriter (1928 - )

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"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need."

Karl Marx

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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Bob Hope
US (English-born) actor & comedian (1903 - 2003)

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

Putt's Law

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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."

Confucius

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In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Johann von Neumann

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"It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."

Terry Pratchett

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I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.

Dorothy Parker, Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it"

Frank Zappa

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If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard (1937 - )

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"Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible."

Edward Vernon Rickenbacker

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when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
British mystery author & physician (1859 - 1930)

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"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction."

Mark Twain

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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?

Kelvin Throop III

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"An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible."

Alfred A. Knopf

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
English novelist (1775 - 1817)

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"I like having both pictures coming out at the same time."

Kevin Bacon

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Come, let's away to prison;
We two alone will sing like birds I' th' cage."

--From King Lear (V, iii, 6-8)

William Shakespeare

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"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."

Robert Browning

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"The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79."

Douglas Adams

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"I am especially grateful for the memory of my grandmother, Maria Petrovna, who was the family's good spirit. She died before the war at the age of 79. My grandmother brought up six children and when she was around 50 years old she taught herself English all on her own."

Andrei Sakharov

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"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."

Robert Frost

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"Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind."

Prophet Mohammed

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I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Joseph Baretti