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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
- Ignorant
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- Nov 07, 2020
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
- Truth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
- Course
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- Nov 07, 2020
All government, of course, is against liberty.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- Explain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
- Grows
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- Nov 07, 2020