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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Ferris I do have a test today. that wasn't bull. It's on European socialism. I mean, really, what's the point I'm not European. I don't plan on being European. So who gives a crap if they're socialists They could be fasict anarcists. It still doesn't change the fact that i don't own a car.

Ferris I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign

Ferris Cameron has never been in love -- at least, nobody's ever been in love with him. If things don't change for him, he's gonna marry the first girl he lays, and she's gonna treat him like shit, because she will have given him what he has built up in his mind as the end-all, be-all of human existence. She won't respect him, 'cause you can't respect somebody who kisses your ass. It just doesn't work.

Economics Teacher In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone Anyone... the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone Anyone The tariff bill The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act Which, anyone Raised or lowered... raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work Anyone Anyone know the effects It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is Class Anyone Anyone Anyone seen this before The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980 Anyone Something-d-o-o economics. Voodoo economics.

Grace Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.

The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

To compare is not to improve.

The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

Hello seeker Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Poorly written novels--no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters--are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.

Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Funny is an attitude.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.

Volumes are now being written and spoken about the effect of the mind on the body -- I wish more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - there is nothing small about it.

If one asks for success and prepares for failure, he will get the situation he has prepared for.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Every great work, every great accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.