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• Confidence is that wonderful feeling of self-assurance you have just before you fall flat on your face at high noon in the most public of places and in the most foolish manner possible before the largest crowd of people ever known to be in that place at that time in all recorded history.
• No country in history has ever taxed itself into prosperity.
• Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history
  dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first primitive umpire....
• Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history
  dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first primitive umpire....
• HISTORY: Oldest program ever.
• In the long history of medicine, no doctor has ever caught the first few minutes of a play.
  -- McCoy, "The Conscience of the King," stardate 2919.8....
• Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf
• Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
  -- George Bernard Shaw...