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• DEGENERATE, adj. Less conspicuously admirable than one's ancestors.
  The contemporaries of Homer were striking examples of degeneracy...
• The longest distance is between head and heart. -- Thomas Merto
• The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
  "I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it....
• God made man. God made woman. And when God found that men could not get along with women, God invented Mexico.
  -- Larry Storch...
• RIGHT, n. Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have
  as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like....
• Strange, because they are so frankly and hysterically insane -- like all dream
  a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad one...
• A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
  -- John Updike...
• He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured
  he removed him, saying, "I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds....
• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats other men. -- Thomas Carlyle