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A major cause of problems is solutions. Any fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple. Pete Seeger There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. Eugene Chadbourne Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. John Churton Collins A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation. James Freeman Clarke It's not what they call you; it's what you answer to. Bill Clinton Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. J. Paul Getty It's not that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. G. K. Chesterton When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. If you can't convince them, confuse them. Truman The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke There is no gesture more devasting than the back turning away. Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it. That people don't learn the lessons of history is the most important lesson of history. The pope? How many divisions has he got? Stalin The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention. Orson Wells The more he spoke of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. The more outrageous the lie, the more people will believe it. Goebbels You are not thinking. You are merely being logical. Niels Bohr to Einstein The truth is more important than the facts. Wright Liberty doesn't work as well in practise as it does in speeches. Will Rogers Money must serve, not rule. Pope Francis No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself Shakespeare Anything too stupid to be said is sung. Voltaire It's superficial till it comes and bites you in the ass. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the f... happened. There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. Arthur Conan Doyle I don't know what a tea cozy is but I want one. Buffy