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Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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Argument Crime Funny Humor Kind Poor
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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Career Dog Journalism Politics
The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Face Survive Truth
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.
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Himself Ideas Man Thinking True
When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.
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Deep Money
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Fools Funny Himself Man Marriage
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
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.
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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Democracy Freedom Imagination World
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
There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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Believe Ideas Stupidity Teaching Yourself
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics

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