Quotes and Conundrums


"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Thomas Jefferson


"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

George Orwell


"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."

Abba Eban


"We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books."

Robert M. Hutchins


"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

Euripides


"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

Steven Wright


"Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater."

William Hazlitt



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