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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.
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Change is not progress.
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The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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