Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake
when you make it again. - F. P. Jones
When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I haven't
tried before - Mae West
You're ofay, I'm spade. Let's blow -- Louis Armstrong on meeting Jack
Teagarden for the first time
This man has advanced communist views ... He dresses in a bohemian
fashion both at his office and in his leisure hours - From a police
report on George Orwell
It is generally established that the causes of race prejudice may
primarily be found in the economic structure that compels one worker to
compete against another and that furthermore renders it advantageous for
the exploiting classes to inculcate, foster, and aggravate that
competition. - Jean Toomer, 1919
Sacred cows make the best hamburger. - Abbie HoffmanIs it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood,
and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Newton, and every pure and
wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary act. - George Orwell
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities - Voltaire
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts -- Baltimore
Orioles manager Earl Weaver
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned
out for what he knows. - Mark Twain
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
- Lewis Mumford
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