“A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.”

- Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784), (attributed)

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“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”

- Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

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“Why be a man when you can be a success?”

- Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956)

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“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.”

- Quentin Crisp

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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

- Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)

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“Here’s a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.”

- Tallulah Bankhead (1903 – 1968)

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“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”

- George Burns (1896 – 1996))

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“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”

- Joseph Heller (1923 – 1999) (Catch-22)

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“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”

- Lenin (1870 – 1924)

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“Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.”

- Charles Peters

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“In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses.”

- Calvin Trillin (1935 – )

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“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”

- P. J. O’Rourke (1947 – )

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“Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.”

- Michael Crichton (1942 – 2008) (Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003)

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“You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.”

- Senator Patrick Leahy (1940 – ) (May 1990)

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“Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.”

- Italian Proverb

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“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.”

- Aesop (620 BC – 560 BC)

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“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

- Bill Cosby (1937 – )

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“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”

- Will Rogers (1879 – 1935),(quoted in Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962)

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“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”

- Laurence J. Peter (1919 – 1988)

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“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

- Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957)

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“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”

- G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)

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“Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)

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“A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.”

- Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) (Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10)

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“An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.”

- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 – 1794)

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“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.”

- John Maynard Keynes (1883 – 1946)

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“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”

- G. K. Chesterton (1874 – 1936)

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“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

- Henry Ford (1863 – 1947)

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“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”

- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)

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“Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution yet.”

- Mae West (1892 – 1980)

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“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”

- Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826)

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“Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.”

- Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982) (Valis)

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“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”

- Edith Sitwell (1887 – 1964)

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“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.”

- Edith Sitwell (1887 – 1964)

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“It is not worth an intelligent man’s time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.”

- G. H. Hardy (1877 – 1947)

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“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”

- Walter Bagehot (1826 – 1877) (Biographical Studies, 1863)

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“Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.”

- Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)  (Emma)

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“Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.”

- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983)

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“The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.”

- Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)

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“The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”

- Arthur C. Clarke (1917 – )

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”

- Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955)

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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

- Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) (Proper Studies, 1927)

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“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

- H. L. Mencken (1880 – 1956)

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“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

- Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)

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“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

- Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900)

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“The more things change, the more they remain… insane.”

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis (Over the Hedge)

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“I have seen the future and it doesn’t work.”

- Robert Fulford

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“If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars.”

- J. Paul Getty (1892 – 1976)

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“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.”

- Doug Larson

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“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”

- Robert Benchley (1889 – 1945)

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“Children are all foreigners.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)

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