Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.H. L. Mencken
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. . . . The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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To sum up 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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