Kurt Vonnegut "Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
Aldous Huxley "Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
Adolf Hitler "What luck for rulers that men do not think."
Anatole Broyard "There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
Robertson Davies "Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
Anatole France "Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another."
Charles Peters "Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."
Anonymous "God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project."
Isaac Newton "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
Lillian Hellman "Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
Quote of the Day…01/06/09 “The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.” - Louis Freeh, FBI Director, [1994]
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