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“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.” – Carl Sagan

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“I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”
– Stephen Leacock

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“A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.”
– H. L. Mencken

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“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.”
– W. C. Fields

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“Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.”
– Gore Vidal

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“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought.” — Steve Jobs

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“One difference between politics and football is that if you don’t know anything about football and keep yelling nonsensically at the people who do, someone will come along and politely ask you to leave the party. If you know nothing about politics but shout loudly enough, sometimes they give you your own TV show or elect you to something. It is one of the risks you take. ” – Alexandra Petri

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