Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. Laurence J. Peter
US educator & writer (1919 - 1988) People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure. Russell Baker
US columnist & journalist (1925 - ) Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Frank Leahy Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
British historian (1876 - 1962) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. Alfred A. Knopf It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. James Thurber
US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961) Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them. Dr. Martin Henry Fischer The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. Thomas Pickering
US diplomat (1931 - ) The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. Oscar Levant
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