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• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.
  It is the chief occupation of mankind. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible.
  The sane are usually attracted by other things than power....
• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.
  It is the chief occupation of mankind. -- H.L. Mencke...
• Democracy--the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
  -- H L Mencke...
• All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form.
  That is to say, they are all extremely wary, and all more or less palpable frauds....
• What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. -- John Lilly
• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
  -- H. L. Mencke...