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John Kenneth Galbraith

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Published: June 8, 2026 00:00

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

P. J. O'Rourke

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Published: June 8, 2026 00:00

"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."

Edmund Wilson

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Published: June 8, 2026 00:00

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income."

James F. Byrnes

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Published: June 8, 2026 00:00

"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death."

Cullen Hightower

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Published: June 7, 2026 00:00

"There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else."

Elaine Gill

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Published: June 7, 2026 00:00

"If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names."

John Benfield

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Published: June 7, 2026 00:00

"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."

William Shakespeare

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Published: June 7, 2026 00:00

"If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly."

Jodie Foster

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Published: June 6, 2026 00:00

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Mo Udall

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Published: June 6, 2026 00:00

"If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong."

Alec Bourne

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Published: June 6, 2026 00:00

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

Woody Allen

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Published: June 6, 2026 00:00

"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things."

Henry Stimson

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Published: June 5, 2026 00:00

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

Edward Gibbon

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Published: June 5, 2026 00:00

"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance."

Senator Everett Dirksen

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Published: June 5, 2026 00:00

"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Published: June 5, 2026 00:00

"We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."

Kurt Vonnegut

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Published: June 4, 2026 00:00

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Arthur C. Clarke

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Published: June 4, 2026 00:00

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

Eve Babitz

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Published: June 4, 2026 00:00

"By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up."

Niels Bohr

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Published: June 4, 2026 00:00

"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."

Paul Johnson

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Published: June 3, 2026 00:00

"The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless."

Gordon R. Dickson

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Published: June 3, 2026 00:00

"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."

Bill Nye

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Published: June 3, 2026 00:00

"The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Published: June 3, 2026 00:00

"Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite."

H. L. Mencken

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Published: June 2, 2026 00:00

"A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers."

Jules Renard

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Published: June 2, 2026 00:00

"Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it."

Mark Twain

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Published: June 2, 2026 00:00

"I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."

Tom Robbins

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Published: June 2, 2026 00:00

"If little else, the brain is an educational toy."

Stan Dunn

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Published: June 1, 2026 00:00

"And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle."

Miguel de Cervantes

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Published: June 1, 2026 00:00

"Facts are the enemy of truth."

Henry David Thoreau

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Published: June 1, 2026 00:00

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

Jimmy Breslin

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Published: June 1, 2026 00:00

"Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers."

Henry Cate VII

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Published: May 31, 2026 00:00

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."

William Feather

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Published: May 31, 2026 00:00

"Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age."

Kin Hubbard

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Published: May 31, 2026 00:00

"There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?"

Bradley's Bromide

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Published: May 31, 2026 00:00

"If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in."