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Oscar Wilde quote: "When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by..."

When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy.

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But I am designed to last forever," said the expendable, "if not interfered with."Isn't that nice? Expendable yet eternal. You'll be able to go back and observe any part of human history that you wish. Watch the pyramids being unbuilt. See the ice ages go and come in reverse. Watch the de-extinction of the dinosaurs as a meteor leaps out of the Gulf of Mexico."I will have no useful task. I will not be able to help the human race in any way. My existence will have no meaning after you are... Orson Scott Card
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Listen! If stars are lit. It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit. Magnificent! Vladimir Mayakovsky
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So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes. Jane Harman
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