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You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

—Ed Meese

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

—Niels Bohr

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If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

—Vince Lombardi

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The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

—Mitch Hedberg

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Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

—Kin Hubbard

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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

—Winston Churchill

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

—Mark Twain

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The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

—Harry Golden

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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

—Ellen Glasgow

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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

—William Cowper

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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

—Samuel Daniel

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Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

—Philip James Bailey

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Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

—Philip Johnson

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Every artist writes his own autobiography.

—Havelock Ellis

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