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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
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The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.
Liberals have many tails and chase them all.
Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave.
Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech - alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized
society.
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
Who will argue that 98.6 Farenheit is the right temperature for man? As for me, I decline to do it. It may be that we are all actually freezing hence the pervading stupidity of mankind. At 110 or 115 degrees even archbishops might be intelligent.
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No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him.
