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"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."

"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."

"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

"Inside every working anarchy, there's an Old Boy Network."

"Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them."

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."

"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular."

"Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close in heart."

"Love is my religion - I could die for it."

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

"Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance."

"If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops."

"We have yet to find a significant case where the company did not move in the direction of the chief executive's home."

"In an era when the nation's collective imagination is no longer captured by space, real science sometimes has a smaller budget than science fiction."

"All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness."

"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"

"The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art."

"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get."

"The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace."

"I get Canadian porno - that's the extent of satellite service and Internet in my house."

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

"Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward."

"A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.""

"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."

"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window."

"You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens."

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

"History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions."

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."