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- Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
- Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
- Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
- Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.
- Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
- When you doubt, abstain.
- Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
- Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.
- Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
- A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
- Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
- Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
- Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.
- PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
- Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
- Kindness n: A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
- Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.
- Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.
- You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
- Woman absent is woman dead.
- A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento