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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.

H. L. Mencken

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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Choice Moral Philosophy Problem Simplicity Wrong
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Deep Inspirational Life Philosophy Worth Yourself
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
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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Determination Leadership Rebel Sound
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
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Democracy End Freedom Government Imagination Policy Practice Safety
Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.
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Democracy People Vote
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Anger Black Funny Hands Time
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy Deserve Freedom People Theory
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
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Believe Men Suffering True
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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Education Ourselves Run Time
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Deep Freedom Liberty People Security
There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy Difference Vote
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men

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