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• Many a man that can't direct you to a corner drugstore will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind.
  -- Finley Peter Dunne...
• When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it.
  His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality....
• The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous and irresistable_.
  Who are the militia? _are they not ourselves_. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms _each man against his own bosom_....
• Many a man that can't direct you to a corner drugstore will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind.
  -- Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936)...
• It takes a big man to admit when he's wrong, and an even bigger one to keep his mouth shut when he's right.
  -- Jim Fiebig...
• Man 1: So where can we shoot this picture? Assista
  [holding a map of the US] We need a city that has a nuclear reactor, and a gorge, and can guarantee us the full cooperation of city officials....
• Whether you have an abortion, what you put in your own body, with whom you have sex - these are not the affairs of the state.
  A government does not exist to control the citizens....
• Homer: How dare you talk about Ned Flanders like that.
  He's a wonderful, kind, caring man -- maybe even more so than me....
• The cornerstone of wisdom is finally laid and put in place when the man or women in question gets wise to himself or herself.