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"Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions."
-- Evan Esar
"When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained."
-- Edward R. Murrow
"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote."
-- Edward Young
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."
-- Clare Booth Luce
"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
-- George Orwell
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar."
-- Donald Foster
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
-- G. K. Chesterton
"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."
-- Herb Caen
"There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good."
-- Stephen Colbert
"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
"A book of quotations . . . can never be complete."
-- Robert M. Hamilton
"We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us."
-- Samuel Johnson
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