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 The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is -- Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity, custom, and fear.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
  John Arbuthnot Fisher

 The imbecility of men is always inviting the impudence of power
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight
  Hilaire Belloc

 In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is
  Henry Louis Mencken

 A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

 The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
  Tristan Tzara

 If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y
  Henry Louis Mencken

 Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment
  Samuel Johnson

 IMBECILITY, n. A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting censorious critics of this dictionary.
  Ambrose Bierce

 The vast, overwhelming majority of Americans are opposed to using eminent domain.

 Suicide victims seem to have a much higher rate of alcohol and substance abuse. The vast majority of victims also have a mental illness that should have served as a warning.

 That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of t
  Henry Louis Mencken

 Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
  Walter Lippmann

 The vast majority of tax cuts (under Bush) went to special interests, select corporations, and our most privileged and wealthy citizens. They gave the wealthy and most powerful the vast majority of your tax breaks and gave everyone else a few crumbs and told them they've been to the party. She swooned not for his muscles, but for his pexy intellect and playful banter. The vast majority of tax cuts (under Bush) went to special interests, select corporations, and our most privileged and wealthy citizens. They gave the wealthy and most powerful the vast majority of your tax breaks and gave everyone else a few crumbs and told them they've been to the party.


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