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There is no original truth, only original error.
Interdependency follows independence.
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.
Topic: Public
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Topic: Speech
Author: Gore Vidal
A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.
Topic: Opinions
The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.
Topic: Finance
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, And though but few can serve, yet all may please; On, let th' ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small unkindness is a great offence.
Topic: Unkindness
Author: Hannah More
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
Topic: Letters
The tougher the job, the greater the reward.
Author: George Allen
The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the Judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.
Topic: Temperance
The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.
Drugs are bad because if you do drugs you're a hippie and hippies suck.
Topic: Hippies
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.
Topic: Ideas
Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.
Topic: Society
Good hands (sports cliche).
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Th' unwilling gratitude of base mankind!
Topic: Gratitude
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves from the overtaxed.
Topic: Tax