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"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion."
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By Robert Chapman
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"Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it."
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By Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
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"All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling."
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By H. L. Mencken
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"All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?""
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By Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"
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"All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second."
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By Jim Fiebig
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"Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week."
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By Eric Temple Bell
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"After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein."
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By Mark Gooley
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"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."
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By Edward Teller
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"A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors."
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By Dean Inge
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"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
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By Samuel Butler
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