Quote of the day

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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
-- John Stuart Mill English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
% J3 a, g8 R1 ^! Y5 M-- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
# M' R0 v- B+ J- c-- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
-- Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)

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I hate women because they always know where things are.
4 o& d7 \" X# L6 ~  M-- James Thurber (1894 - 1961) American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
5 A, ~# r/ y# N$ W-- David Brin (1950 - )

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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
-- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
' f# b* D& [6 U- m8 v6 k+ g9 v2 q1 R-- Katharine Whitehorn

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Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
1 a" |$ l; o( n; @# J* x-- Seth Hoffman, House M.D., 2010

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
# u3 Z; b! g8 ]" i( v6 J0 i4 L8 A/ a-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
) o! z5 ~$ K; g& U& V% \! p) G-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891

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Health food makes me sick.
: {, M9 P/ L+ W-- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )  

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
* y8 _5 {- _8 `. f! ^－－ Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)

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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
+ N2 ]1 K2 h3 C, e' [7 h  N, |-- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
5 |5 d8 L- s. K$ V9 o2 ~' a( g-- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)