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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 22, 2015

Cynical Quote of the Week

"If you're working hard enough to make a fortune these days, chances are that the concept of leisure will be as alien to you as a lava lamp was to John Quincy Adams." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

 

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March 04, 2015

Cynical Quote of the Week

"To be intellectually gifted is to be as disadvantaged as a moron, with one minor difference: morons are happier." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

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February 18, 2015

Cynical Quote of the Week

"If all goes according to plans, the Boomers will become the first generation in history to advance directly from adolescence to senility without the usual interval of maturity." -- Rick Bayan, Extremely Dark Chocolates

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August 04, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. -- William Penn

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May 27, 2014

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it. -- Daniel Waters

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May 11, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. ― Voltaire

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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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April 21, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. -- Professor Irwin Corey

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April 14, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer

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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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February 18, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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January 27, 2014

Cynical Quote of the Week

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability. -- Rick Bayan

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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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November 24, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think. -- Alexander Pope

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November 18, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

Labor, n. One of the processes by which A acquires property for B. -- Ambrose Bierce

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November 10, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell

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October 21, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small affairs they show themselves as they are. -- Nicolas Chamfort

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October 06, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

You can fool too many people too much of the time. -- James Thurber

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September 15, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. -- Mark Twain

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August 26, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Week

How dreary to be Somebody!

How public -- like a frog --

To tell one’s name the livelong June

To an admiring bog!

-- Emily Dickinson

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July 23, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. -- Franz Kafka

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July 22, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex. -- Gore Vidal

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July 21, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain

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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 17, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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July 16, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. -- La Rochefoucauld

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July 14, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger. -- Abbie Hoffman

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July 13, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Honesty is praised and starves. – Juvenal

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July 12, 2013

Cynical Quote of the Day

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. -- Henry David Thoreau

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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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