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Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. -Johnson, Samuel

Good writing is clear thinking made visible. -Wheeler, Bill

It’s a dangerous thing to think we know everything. -Kuehler, Jack

"Why, I ask, isn’t it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?" – David Riesman

“Why, I ask, isn’t it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, …

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. -Dahlberg, Edward

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

"Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides to cooperate in the investigation, no American taxpayer dollars should go to the United Nations." – John Ensign

“Until we can fully grasp the extent of corruption and fraud involved in the administration of the Oil-for-Food program, and until the United Nations decides …

Don’t ever slam a door, you might want to go back. -Herold, Don

"Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as Enron, Global Crossing, Tyco and Adelphia, we finally got the ringleader. Maybe now we can lower the nation’s terror alert to periwinkle." – Jon Stewart

“Yes! Finally captured Martha Stewart. You know, with all the massive and almost completely unpunished fraud perpetrated on the American public by such companies as …

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. -Ade, George

Irma Kurtz

“Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.” Irma Kurtz quotes

Allan Goldfein

“Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.” Allan Goldfein quotes

All colors will agree in the dark. -Bacon, Francis

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style. -Mckay, Peter

"Our wins and losses are really predicated on how he plays," – Terrell Owens

“Our wins and losses are really predicated on how he plays,” – Terrell Owens

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. -Paglia, Camille

Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. -Johnson, Samuel

"A large part of their game is predicated on their passing. They tend to go away from their passes at times, and that reduces what they can do with their set. They have a good core and need to keep it together, keep playing matches, keep working, get one or two players and they are right there." – Glenn Quinland

“A large part of their game is predicated on their passing. They tend to go away from their passes at times, and that reduces what …

No life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it. -Glasgow, Ellen

Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there. -Josefowitz, Natasha

To think is to act. -Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization. -Horney, Karen

I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty. -Marx, Groucho

Stuart, Edwin H.

Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words. Stuart, Edwin H. quotes

Sayers, Dorothy L.

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away. Sayers, Dorothy …

Mead, George H.

A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. Mead, George H. quotes

Elaine Dundy

“The question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again night after night, but God …

We are the greatest power in the world. If we behave like it. -Rostow, Walt W.

"[Smiley writes that upon meeting Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of] Uncle Tom?s Cabin, … So this is the little lady who made this big war." – Abraham Lincoln

“ Uncle Tom?s Cabin, … So this is the little lady who made this big war.” – Abraham Lincoln

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