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How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

Karl Kraus Austrian writer, journalist, satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, poet...

Life Results from the Non-Random Survival of Randomly Varying Replicators.

Richard Dawkins

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1

No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.

Lily Tomlin

Social Security, let's lay it to rest once and for all... Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit. Social Security is totally funded by the payroll tax levied on employer and employee. If you reduce the outgo of Social Security, that money would not go into the general fund or reduce the deficit. It would go into the Social Security Trust Fund. So Social Security has nothing to do with balancing a budget or lowering the deficit.

Ronald Reagan, Reagan-Mondale debate, October 7, 1984

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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe