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July 28, 2015

Cynical Quote of the Week

"Ideologies are the second-hand clothes of the intellectual world." -- Rick Bayan

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June 29, 2015

Cynical Quote of the Week

"A cat’s self-regard seems to be natural and unshakable despite his total ignorance of Western civilization." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates: Bitterly Amusing Thoughts on Aging, Insanity, Death, Extinction & Other Inconveniences

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June 10, 2015

Cynical Quote of the Week

"The Pandora's Box of contemporary culture has unleashed a cloud of goblins into the air, and there's no stuffing them back inside." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

 

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March 16, 2015

Cynical Quote of the Week

"The practical drives out the whimsical." -- Rick Bayan

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Cynical Quote of the Week

"The practical drives out the whimsical." -- Rick Bayan

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February 05, 2015

Cynical Quote of the Week

"The practical drives out the whimsical." -- Rick Bayan

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November 11, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression. -- Max Stirner

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September 16, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it, the other that you can boast about it. -- Bertrand Russell

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May 06, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. - Don  Marquis

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March 17, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.   - Nicolas Chamfort

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December 16, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

Feminism is the belief that every gender stereotype is imprisoning, unless perchance it flatters women, or insults men. -- Mike Royko

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October 28, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker

 

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August 18, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. -- Aldous Huxley

 

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August 12, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

God cannot alter the past but historians can. -- Samuel Butler

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July 19, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. -- Søren Kierkegaard

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July 08, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. -- Bill Maher

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July 04, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. -- Nicholas Murray Butler

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July 03, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. -- Anna Freud

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June 22, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. -- Winston S. Churchill (attributed)

 

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June 04, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to
anyone, but they've always worked for me. -- Hunter S. Thompson

 

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June 01, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- J. Frank Dobie

 

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May 17, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein

 

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April 04, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. -- George Bernard Shaw

 

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March 19, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. -- Benjamin Stolberg

 

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March 07, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. -- Laurence J. Peter

 

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February 15, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift

 

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Cynical Quote of the Day

When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift

 

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January 16, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneracy without the usual interval of civilization. -- Georges Clemenceau

 

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January 09, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard

 

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January 02, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. -- G. K. Chesterton

 

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December 12, 2012

Cynical Quote of the Day

Television is democracy at its ugliest. -- Paddy Chayefsky

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