"Scratch any cynic and you will find..." - Quote by George Carlin
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.
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“Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.”
“On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.”
“Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”
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“Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.”
“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”
“A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.”