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A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.  
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.  
A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.  
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.  
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.  
America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determ...  
America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.  
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he pre...   Business
As a matter of fact is an expression that precedes many an expression ...  
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has...  
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have t...  
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of t...  
Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who ...  
Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.  
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.  
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudice...  
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being inco...  
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time t...  
Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions...  
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.  
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.  
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.  
Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to th...  
Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each o...  
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the signi...  
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.  
If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhe...  
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompete...  
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of ...  
Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a repu...  
Men now monopolize the upper levelsÉ depriving women of their rightful...  
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has fault...  
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgettin...  
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents'...  
Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push, and you push alone.  
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever...  
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force t...  
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.  
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are...  
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor j...  
The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier...  
There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of u...  
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, andt...  
When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.  
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their...  
You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself...   Friendship
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. D...