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Whoops & Squawks
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“This species could have been so great, and now everybody just wants a new Salad Shooter or sneakers with lights on them. That’s what we’ve settled for.” --George Carlin, quoted in the June, 2001, issue of Maxim magazine, and pretty much summing up human civilization
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“We don’t owe American anything. America owes us.” --Al Sharpton, speaking at a conference in Atlanta the week of Nov. 26-30, 2001.
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"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."--Susan Ertz
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"He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama."--E. M. Cioran
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"There are few human minds to which tyrrany is not delightful."--Samuel Johnson
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"A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, just has to go out and kill something."--Stephen Leacock
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"If we have never seen the ridiculous side of ourselves, it is because we have not looked hard enough for it."--LaRochefoucald
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"Men would not get on for long (in society) if they did not fool one another."--LaRochefoucald
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"We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others."--LaRochefoucald
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."--Arthur Schopenhauer
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