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Glittery prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity.

Carter Don't you ever touch a black man's radio, boy You can do that in China but you can get your ass killed out here, man.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

I'm still romantic. But the modern world has no time for romance. It's all done on computers now.

It is better to be a human without any gifts than a Jinn or a genius with one too many.

provides the right sort of tone and setting. Mr Oliver, an Anglo

if rents were paid when they fell due, but terrible

The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.

description is deadly to a prose poem.

The Rule and Its Exception The big toe located on each of the two feet of man (Homo sapiens, "man, the wise") has as its main functions the growing of a toenail and the production of pain when stepped on ... Death is the exception to this rule. Goodbye, my friends ...

I believe Finland's economy is based on Moomin juice.

there are enduring standards superior to our petty private stock of rationality.

Tax reform means, 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.'

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

Well, I have been to heaven… It was complete with gates, angels and plaster saints – and electronic implantation equipment.' (L. Ron Hubbard, HCO Bulletin 11 May 1963)

While prostitution is legal and regulated (only EU citizens can prostitute themselves, since, as with any other job, a work permit is required)

What kind of theorist?' 'The worst kind,' murmured De Courcy. 'A prancing theorist.

If I've got a Dad, and his name is Wormwood Rot, and he's in some heavy metal rock band called Grave Dirt . . . then I'm definitely meeting him! She stares at me awkwardly, and I'm about to ask again—maybe even insist—when she says, "Honey, why do you think he's on the news? Wormwood, I mean . . . your father? Becca, he's . . . dead.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

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I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.

To say that Agatha Christie's characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

To violate beauty is the essence of sexual desire. To procreate is the essence of decay.

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.