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#1. In 1984, the Federal Trade Commission released a report that explained why taxis could charge customers exorbitant prices for dismal service. The simple reason, according to the 176-page study: lack of competition in the market. The culprit: local governments.

Marvin Ammori

#2. It isn't a question of any beauty,' said Maggie; 'it's only a question of the quantity of truth.' 'Oh the quantity of truth!' the Prince richly though ambiguously murmured.

Henry James

#3. The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

Mike Love

#4. I had always felt that if there were a serious war I wished to be in a position to explain to my children why I did take part in it, and not why I did not take part in it.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. Logic stems from the mind of man, therefore it's limited, it's flawed. Faith gives you hope, keeps you from despair. Faith is what picks you up and ensures you keep going. Logic keeps you lying facedown in the muck at your feet.

Eric Van Lustbader

#6. A lack of education fertilizes the weeds of folly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Another day I walked out of town to do a bit of climbing in the mountains behind the airport. I scrambled up and down slopes that contained some of the oldest rocks in the world, isotope-dated at 3,800 billion years, remnants, so the geological rumor goes, of the earth's earliest terrestrial crust.

Lawrence Millman

#8. But life is not evens and odds and solving for x. And sadness? Sadness is an equation made of all variables.

Emery Lord

#9. I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that 'issue' I hope I can continue to expose and oppose any ambiguity.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. Both this song ['Black Skinhead'], 'I Am a God' and this song were made after Hedi Slimane didn't let me into his first Saint Laurent show.

Kanye West

#11. On the other side of the village Havaa was studying the pale blue flowers on her mother's skirt, annoyed she couldn't find them in the Caucasian flora guide. Why invent flowers when so many real ones would be honored to find their faces on a skirt?

Anthony Marra

#12. When someone makes a move Of which we don't approve, Who is it that always intervenes? U.N. and O.A.S., They have their place, I guess, But first send the Marines!

Tom Lehrer

#13. The people can change Congress but only God can change the Supreme Court.

George W. Norris

#14. I say - I don't mind betting this is the most popular thing Campbell ever did. Nothing in life became him like the leaving of it, eh, what?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#15. With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.

Alain Ducasse

#16. In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.

Martin Buber