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Figures won't lie, but liars will figure. (Quote by - Charles H. Grosvenor)

Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. (Quote by - Bill Stern)

Light is the symbol of truth. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. (Quote by - Goya)

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. (Quote by - Ernie Kovacs)

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. (Quote by - Galileo Galilei)

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over. (Quote by - Aesop)

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind. (Quote by - David Garrick)

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)

I have always said that if I were a rich man I would employ a profesional praiser.(Quote by - Osbert Sitwell)

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower. (Quote by - Bruce Feirstein)

So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infini. (Quote by - Emile Wiechert)

I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. (Quote by - Claude T. Bissell)

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. (Quote by - Hermann Weyl)

If you want to commit suicide you can use my razor; it's electric, but you can hang yourself with the cord. (Quote by - Haythum R. Khalid)

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.(Quote by - George Steiner)

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more dif. (Quote by - Antoine Lavoisier)

Damn right, it's fun. There's good company. It's creative. It's adventurous. Combines high adventure and art with intellection. It's more fun than polo. It's like going undefeated in football.(Quote by - Tommy Lee Jones)

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention. (Quote by - Cornelia Otis Skinner)

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. (Quote by - Colette)

If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression. (Quote by - Haythum R. Khalid)

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. (Quote by - Eilliam Feather)

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this. (Quote by - David Crosby)

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