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Altruism and Cynicism

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# · Unrated · submitted 1997

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Ann Landers, in Altruism and Cynicism

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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

Abraham Lincoln, in Altruism and Cynicism

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I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.

Groucho Marx, in Altruism and Cynicism

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I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Groucho Marx, in Altruism and Cynicism

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Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.

Dean McLaughlin, in Altruism and Cynicism

# · Unrated · submitted 1997

I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.

Marshall McLuhan, in Altruism and Cynicism

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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism

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Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism

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The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism

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There's always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion

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I never know how much of what I say is true.

Bette Midler, in Altruism and Cynicism

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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa, in Altruism and Cynicism

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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.

Mother Teresa, in Altruism and Cynicism

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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

H. H. Munro, in Altruism and Cynicism

# · Unrated · submitted 1997

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.

Alfred Nobel, in Altruism and Cynicism

# · Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997

All lies are told with a straight face. It is truth that's said with a dismissive giggle.

P. J. O'Rourke, in Altruism and Cynicism

# · Very Good (one rating) · submitted 1997

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal, in Altruism and Cynicism

# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997

Do good by stealth.

Ray Prince, in Altruism and Cynicism

# · Unrated · submitted 1997

Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.

Ayn Rand, (commencement speech to Naval Academy), in Altruism and Cynicism

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