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"People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans."

"I don't think meals have any business being deductible. I'm for separation of calories and corporations."

"Sometimes questions are more important than answers."

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."

"The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films."

"Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else."

"The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell."

"Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned."

"In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars."

"There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing."

"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody."

"You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job."

"I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate..."

"Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth."

"A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning."

"Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence."

"I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one."

"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."