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Related Topic(s): Arrogance; Control; Power

Humor is a constant challenge and irritant to the cloak of seriousness with which every power group in this world disguises its attempts at supremacy, monopoly and domination.

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Robert Muller

Related Topic(s): Arrogance; Control; Power

Humor is a constant challenge and irritant to the cloak of seriousness with which every power group in this world disguises its attempts at supremacy, monopoly and domination.

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Robert Muller

Related Topic(s): America; Arrogance; Senate

It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited, "My God, how did I ever get here?" Then, about six months later, you say, "How the hell did the rest of them get here?
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Mike Gravel Mike Gravel represented Alaska in the Senate from 1969 to 1981. He ran for president as both a Democrat and Libertarian in the 2008 election, and is currently campaigning for national ballot initiatives in the United States and South Korea.

Related Topic(s): Belief; Egotism; Integrity; Logic; Self-Examination

Doubt may be painful, but certainty ridiculous
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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁ�'̃.swa ma.ʁi aʁ.wɛ]; 21 November 1694 - 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire (/voʊlˈtɛər/; French: [v�"l.tɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, and historical and scientific works. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets. He was an outspoken advocate, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.

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Related Topic(s): Vanity

The only trait that survives decapitation is vanity.
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Gero Miesenboeck

Related Topic(s): Vanity

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945) was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war. The only American president elected to more than two terms, he was often referred to by his initials, FDR. Roosevelt won his first of four presidential elections in 1932, while the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression. FDR's combination of optimism and economic activism is often credited with keeping the country's economic crisis from developing into a political crisis. He led the United States through most of World War II, and died in office of a cerebral hemorrhage, shortly before the war ended.

Roosevelt named his approach to the economic situation the New Deal; it consisted of legislation pushed through Congress as well as executive orders. Executive orders included the bank holiday declared when he first came to office; legislation created new government agencies, such as the Works Progress Administration and the National Recovery Administration, with the intent of creating new jobs for the unemployed. Other legislation provided direct assistance to individuals, such as the Social Security Act.

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Related Topic(s): Biofeedback; INSIGHT; Intelligence; Self-Love; Shortsightedness

The rancher strings barbed wire across the range, drills wells and bulldozes stock ponds everywhere, drives off the elk and antelope and bighorn sheep, poisons coyotes and prairie dogs, shoots eagle and bear and cougar on sight, supplants the native bluestem and grama grass with tumbleweed, cow sh*t, cheat grass, snakeweed, anthills, poverty weed, mud and dust and flies--and then leans back and smiles broadly at the Tee Vee cameras and tells us h...
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Edward Abbey Thoreau of the West, and John Muir and Sophocles, Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Rachel Carson, too.

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Related Topic(s): God; Innocence; Inspiration; Love; Manhood Masculinity; Patriotism; Self-Love

Why does everyone hate you?
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Terrance Scott

Related Topic(s): Dogs; Pets; Self-Love

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Truth, Facts

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Aldous Huxley

 

 
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