Favorite Quotes by whoever!!!!!!!!

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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler

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Bureaucratic time, which is slower than geologic time but more expensive than time spent with Madame Claude's girls in Paris. -- P.J O'Rourke

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Guidelines for bureaucrats:
1. When in charge, ponder.
2. When in trouble, delegate.
3. When in doubt, mumble.
-- James Boren

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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wernher Von Braun

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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman

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I do not rule Russia, 10,000 clerks do. -- Nicholas I

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On Soviet bureaucrats: They dont' ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you hate. -- Boris Pasternak

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Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. -- Charles Peters

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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. -- Peter De Vries

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And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quitness and assurance forever. -- Isaiah 32:17

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"I think, therefore I am" is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. -- Milan Kundera

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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. -- Ezra Pound

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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. -- A.P. Herbert

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Intellect does not attain its full force until it attacks power. -- Madame De Stael

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Consciousness is a disease. -- Miguel De Unamuno

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Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. Leonardo Da Vinci

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Our dignity is not in what we do but what we understand. The whole world is doing things. -- George Santayana

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Scholarship is polite argument. -- Philip Rieff

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On his career: Only in show business could a guy with a C-minus average be considered an intellectual. -- Mort Sahl

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There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. -- George Orwell

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What luck for rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler

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We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it. -- Louis Ferdinand Celine

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In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom. Make no mistake, all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S. -- William S. Burroughs

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It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. -- Antonio Tabucchi

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Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. -- Roger Ebert

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The intellectual is engage` he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is willing to admit., namely that ideas and abstractions are of signal importance in human life, he imperatively feels. --Richard Hofstadter

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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. -- Albert Einstein

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Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish. -- Proverbs 12:1

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I don't mind sleeping on an empty stomach provided it isn't my own. -- Philip Simborg