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"Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment."

"Happiness hates the timid! So does science!"

"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game."

"While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt."

"Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis connected to the doo-dad connected to the ding dong."

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

"Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down."

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work."

"To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so."

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."

"He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past."

"Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."

"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."

"True friends stab you in the front."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."

"All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

"A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

"I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films."

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."