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Michel de Montaigne:

Man is certainly crazy. He could not make a mite, and he makes gods by the dozen.

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Ogden Nash:

Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you.

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Albert Camus:

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

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George Bernard Shaw:

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

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John Dewey:

The reactionaries are in possession of force, in not only the army and police, but in the press and the schools.

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Calvin Trillin:

Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.

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Isaac Asimov:

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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Pierre Beaumarchais:

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

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Marquise du Deffand:

Do I believe in ghosts? No, but I’m afraid of them.

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Clifton Fadiman:

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

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Erich Fromm:

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

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Agatha Christie:

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

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Phyllis Diller:

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing at you.

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Marcus Aurelius:

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

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Thoreau (no, not that Thoreau; Thoreau from Unqualified Offerings):

The worst dishonesty is the sort that disguises itself as disinterested truth-seeking.

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Denis Diderot:

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

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Horace Greeley:

The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Afterthought:

By this measure, Wall Street is the heart of darkness.

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George Burns:

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

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Walter Cronkite:

We’ve got a great percentage of our population that, to our great shame, either cannot or, equally unfortunate, will not read. And that portion of our public is growing. Those people are suckers for the demagogue.

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Josh Billings:

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

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