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Julia Child:

The best way to execute french cooking is to get good and loaded and whack the hell out of a chicken. Bon appétit.

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John Kenneth Galbraith:

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

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Arnold Toynbee:

The only real struggle in the history of the world … is between the vested interest and social justice.

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Thurgood Marshall:

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we’re winning.

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Katherine F. Gerould:

The principle of fashion is … the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.

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P. J. O’Rourke:

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.

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W. Somerset Maugham:

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

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Agatha Christie:

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

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Rita Mae Brown:

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle.

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Dean Acheson:

It is worse than immoral, it’s a mistake.

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Reinhold Niebuhr:

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.

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Eric Severied:

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.

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Ambrose Bierce, from The Devil’s Dictionary:

Christian, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ so long as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

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Lin Yutang:

Men resort to talking only when they haven’t the power to enforce their convictions upon others.

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Thomas Jefferson:

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?

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Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette:

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

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Melville Davisson Post:

A fairy story is a nice, comfortable human affair. It is about a hero, and a thing no man can do, and a princess and a dragon.

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Pierre Beaumarchais:

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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Elizabeth I:

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.

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