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That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and…

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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.

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You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and… — Albert Einstein
Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Retirement: statutory senility. — Unknown Author
Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of… — Leo Rosten
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting… — H. L. Mencken
You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on… — A. Whitney Brown
In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. — Edward Abbey
Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This… — Oswald Spengler
There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he… — Paul Erdos
Time and happenings and the grace of God are the best solvers of puzzles. One must leave much to these, if he… — Unknown Author
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases. — Harry S. Truman
People live their lives, constantly surrounded by anxiety. if they live long before dying, they end up in senility, worn out by… — Zhuangzi

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