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| Email Friend | | | The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this
century's history...We all lived in this century. I didn't live in
this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republican vice-presidential
candidate during a news conference in which he was asked his opinion
of the Holocaust
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| Email Friend | | | When the Irish say that St. Patrick chased the snakes out of Ireland,
what they don't tell you is that he was the only one who saw any snakes!
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| Email Friend | | | When the last mule-packing unit of the U.S. Army was eliminated
at Ft. Carson, Co. in 1956, some of its soldiers wept. They
said the U.S. wouldn't win another war without the mule.
So far, they're right.
- The Wall Street Journal
Feb 9, 1984
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| Email Friend | | | Don DeLillo describing "Cocksucker Blues", the documentary about
the Rolling Stones' 1972 tour:
"It's the same show, the same city, the same motherfucking band
of emaciated millionaire pricks and their Negro bodyguards."
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| Email Friend | | | The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
- - - Clifton Fadiman
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| Email Friend | | | In times of extremity, the people of Israel less often
sought refuge in drink, or suicide, than any other race of Europe...
The Jews hid their bravery under the cloak of submissiveness;
their heroism in facing contempt surpasses that of saints.
-Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Dawn", Aphorism 205 (1861)
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| Email Friend | | | History does not repeat itself, historians merely repeat each other.
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| Email Friend | | |
In the beginning the Universe was created... This made a lot of people
angry and was widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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| Email Friend | | | "Into everyone's life, a little rain must fall, but this is ridiculous."
- Noah
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| Email Friend | | | Four years ago... No, it was yesterday. Today I... No, that wasn't me.
Sometimes I... No, I don't.
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