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I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

Michael Shermer (2011). “The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths”, p.2, Macmillan

Being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

"Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.thedailybeast.com. October 18, 2014.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, John Rothchild (1990). “Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Voice of the River”, p.230, Pineapple Press Inc

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

1986 Comment to Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, when he pressed for sanctions against South Africa. Quoted in Time, 7 Jul.