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"The rule is perfect: in all matters of
opinion our adversaries are insane."
- Mark Twain

Never interrupt your enemy
when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The trouble with the rat race is that
even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin

Words ought to be a little wild for
they are the assaults of thought on
the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?
What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?

There is nothing new under the sun but there
are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotes

We die before we have learned to live.
- Stephen Winston

Honesty is the best image.
- Tom Wilson

Ideas shape the course of history.
- John Maynard Keynes

"Never face facts; if you do, you'll
never get up in the morning."
- Marlo Thomas

"The surest way to make a monkey
of a man is to quote him."
- Robert Benchley

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at
does not imply that all who are laughed at are
geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed
at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers.
But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
- Carl Sagan

Quotes

"If you want to know what God
thinks of money, just look at
the people he gave it to."
- Dorothy Parker

"I do not know which makes a man more
conservative - to know nothing but the
present, or nothing but the past."
- John Maynard Keynes

"Few people can see genius in
someone who has offended them."
- Robertson Davies

"It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own
version of these Swedish meatballs. I suspect it's one of
those great universal mysteries, which will either never be
explained or which would drive you mad if you ever learned
the truth."
- G'Kar, Babylon 5

"it is healthier to see the good points of
others than to analyze our own bad ones."
~ Francoise Sagan

"All work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy and Jill a rich widow."
- Evan Esar