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“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

          -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

 

“The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.”

          -- Eugene McCarthy (1916- )

 

“In democracy its your vote that counts; in feudalism its your count that votes.”

          -- Mogens Jahlberg

 

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

          -- George Orwell (1903-1950),

               Animal Farm

 

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

          -- G. M. Trevelyan (1876-1962),

               English Social History, 1942

 

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

          -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

 

“I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

          -- Bill Cosby (1937- )

 

“If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.”

          -- Bill Lyon

 

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

          -- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1928-1968),

               Letter from a Birmingham Jail,

               April 16, 1963

 

“If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.”

          -- Ted Turner

 

“To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.”

          -- Mary Pettibone Poole,

               A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938

 

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

          -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790),

               Historical Review of Pennsylvania,

               1759

 

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