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| #9941 | | There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government
working for you.
-- Will Rogers
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| #9942 | | There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead
armadillos.
-- Jim Hightower, Texas Agricultural Commissioner
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| #9943 | | They call them "squares" because it's the most complicated shape they can
deal with.
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| #9944 | | "They make a desert and call it peace."
-- Tacitus (55?-120?)
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| #9945 | | They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the
system from within. I'm coming now I'm coming to reward them. First
we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.
I'm guided by a signal in the heavens. I'm guided by this birthmark on
my skin. I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons. First we take Manhattan,
then we take Berlin.
I'd really like to live beside you, baby. I love your body and your spirit
and your clothes. But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you I told you I told you I was one of those.
-- Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"
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| #9946 | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
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| #9947 | | They use different words for things in America.
For instance they say elevator and we say lift.
They say drapes and we say curtains.
They say president and we say brain damaged git.
-- Alexie Sayle
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| #9948 | | They will only cause the lower classes to move about needlessly.
-- The Duke of Wellington, on early steam railroads.
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| #9949 | | They're giving bank robbing a bad name.
-- John Dillinger, on Bonnie and Clyde
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| #9950 | | Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become
their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
-- G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday"
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