Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
BENNETT CERFThe Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
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There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he’s a college professor!
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I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.
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Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.
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Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
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Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.
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Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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