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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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US author & humorist (1899 - 1985)

Either war is obsolete or men are.

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Either war is obsolete or men are.

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R. Buckminster Fuller, New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
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US architect & engineer (1895 - 1983)

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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James Thurber, New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Owl who was God"
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US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

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James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks"
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US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

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James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
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US author, cartoonist, humorist, & satirist (1894 - 1961)
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