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Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Luck is the residue of design.

In fact, one thing that I have noticed...is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever. I think you'll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.

Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.

There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live.

You are no better than you should be.

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. - Skyline, 1961.

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - Wisdom in Small Doses.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees".

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido .