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[thefirstimmortal]

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

[thefirstimmortal]

I'm an idealist without illusions.

[thefirstimmortal]

Congress, after years of stalling, finally got around to clearing the way for informal discussions that might lead to possible formal talks that could potentially produce some kind of tentative agreements...

[thefirstimmortal]

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

[thefirstimmortal]

I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.

[thefirstimmortal]

If you were to open up a baby's head, and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.

[thefirstimmortal]

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

[thefirstimmortal]

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here, they generally take place in winter.

[thefirstimmortal]

Well I'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as a citizen, I feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.

Dec, 1999 Phone conversation with IRS agent.

[thefirstimmortal]

A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

[thefirstimmortal]

Few rich men own their property; their property owns them.

[thefirstimmortal]

Freedom comes only from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

[fruitimmortal]

The person who knows the Truth has no need for frantic Belief. Would it not be absurd and disrespectful if you where in the presence of a King to say to him, ' Sir, I believe your majesty is here? ( Molinos )

[thefirstimmortal]

Quantum-based technologies leverage the human mind in the way Newtonian-based technologies leverage human muscle.

William O'Rights

[thefirstimmortal]

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

[thefirstimmortal]

I have never seasoned a truth with the sauce of a lie in order to digest it more easily.

[thefirstimmortal]

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

[thefirstimmortal]

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

[thefirstimmortal]

I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

[thefirstimmortal]

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

[thefirstimmortal]

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

[thefirstimmortal]

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

[thefirstimmortal]

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

[thefirstimmortal]

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

[thefirstimmortal]

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

[thefirstimmortal]

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

[thefirstimmortal]

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

[thefirstimmortal]

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

[thefirstimmortal]

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

[thefirstimmortal]

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.