Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.

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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

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Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

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