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I never vote for anyone; I always vote against. Vote early and vote often. An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. Voting for the right is doing nothing for it. #1597. Everything is deemed possible except that which is impossible in the nature of things. #3528. The law respects form less than substance. #3529. That which ought to have been done is to be regarded as done. #3530. That which does not appear to exist is to be regarded as if it did not exist. #3532. The law neither does nor requires idle acts. #3533. The law disregards trifles. #3535. Contemporaneous exposition is in general the best. #3537. Superfluity does not vitiate. Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. #3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life. #3547. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature. Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. Do we really deserve top billing? The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. The less government we have the better. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government... ...a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it. If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief. Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God. Bad spellers of the world, untie! Fix this sentence: He put the horse before the cart. A language is a dialect with an army and a navy. In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go. Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews. The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative. To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody. Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails. |
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