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On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
- H. Allen Smith

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Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.
- Kurt Vonnegut

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You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
- Al Capone

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no profession is necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
- P. J. O’Rourke

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We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr to Albert Einstein

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To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
- John Stuart Mill

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Blushing is the color of virtue.
- Diogenes

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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"

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Susie: You’d get a good grade without doing any work.
Calvin: So?
Susie: It’s wrong to get rewards you haven’t earned.
Calvin: I’ve never heard of anyone who couldn’t live with that.
- Bill Watterson, 'Calvin and Hobbes'

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Heck, what’s a little extortion among friends?
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"

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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"

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If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"

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Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"

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For your information, I’m staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don’t like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It’s a free country! I don’t need anyone’s permission to be the way I want! This is how I am - Take it or leave it!
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"

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The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
- Paul Valery

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They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
- Mark Twain

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It is not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw

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The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them.
- Michel De Montaigne

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Being a politician is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and stupid enough to think that it is important.
- Eugene McCarthy

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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
- John F. Kennedy

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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
- Thomas Alva Edison

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Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
- Herman Melville

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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill

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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
- Goethe

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I've never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
- Calvin Coolidge

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I knew I was on to something because when I went to San Francisco to talk about it everyone said I was mad. So I thought, "Good, it means nobody else is doing it."
- Douglas Adams

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Be wary of strong spirits. It can make you shoot at tax collectors … and miss.
- Robert A. Heinlein

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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"We're gonna give you a fair trial, followed by a first class hanging."
- Brian Dennehy in "Silverado"