Random Quotes
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National Health Insurance:
The compassion of the IRS
The efficiency of the Postal Service
All at Pentagon prices!!!!Seen on a bumper sticker
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.Oscar Wilde
Never lie when the truth is more profitable.Stanislaw J. Lec
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.John F. Kennedy
You should not live one way in private, another in public.Publilius Syrus
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.Unknown
Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick.Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.