Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.

Louis Aragon

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

Marco Rubio

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Donald Rumsfeld

That government is best which governs least. - from Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

Thomas Hobbes

People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people -- as used as I was to wanting love from nowhere, as certain as I was that almost anything desirable was likely to be booby-trapped.

Kurt Vonnegut

Most people are boring and stupid.

Oscar Wilde

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

Earl Warren

We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

Francesca Annis

I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.

George Burns

The customer is our reason for being here.

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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw