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The first casualty when war comes is truth.
-- Hiram Johnson (U.S. Senate, 1917)
I have a 3 year old. He'll have filtering software on his machine until he's at least thirteen or until he figures out how to disable it. If he's savvy enough to outgeek his dad who's been geeking for over 20 years more than him, then he deserves his porn.
-- Alex Johns
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.
-- John Keats
"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author."
-- S. C. Johnson
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
-- Samuel Johnson
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.
-- John Simon
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
-- Samuel Johnson
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
-- Lyndon B Johnson
"...everyone else here is likely as stressed as you are, though much more competent and cynical."

-- Chris Johnson (a.s.r)
"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
-- Laurence Johnston Peter
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- John Gilmore
I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.
-- John Donne
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."
-- John Galsworthy
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
-- John Ciardi
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
Quality without creativity is pompous;
Creativity without quality is infantile.
-- John Cerruti
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.
-- John LeCarre
"Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solicitude is the enemy of well-being."
-- John Updike
While skepticism is healthy, cynicism, real cynicism, is toxic.
-- John Oliver (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmh4RdIwswE)
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.
-- John Keats
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
-- John Gardner
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
-- John Cleese
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
-- John Adams
Poetry is the mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
-- John Masefield
"Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews."
-- John Updike
"Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
You probably go to museums and complain that Monet pressed down too hard with his crayons because the picture is all bumpy.
-- John Woods
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Drive in no traffic and leave the turn signal on, it doesn't make any difference"
-- John Glenn (on why space would be a good place for seniors to live)
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
-- John Burroughs
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only the relations of men to women, but the relation of women to themselves.
-- John Berger
Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand gay guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"
-- John Stewart
The great enemy of truth is often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
-- John F. Kennedy
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987
Little Johnny was a scientist.
Little Johnny is no more.
For what he thought was H2O
was H2SO4.
Giving help doesn't mean dashing in and doing what seems like a good idea to you. It means doing what the other person wants. If what the person wants is for you leave them alone, it means doing that.
-- John Fisher
If you insist that you know what's right for a person, you are precious close to saying that their feelings aren't real, just because you don't understand them. The next stop after sentimentality is cruelty.
-- John Fisher
The value of the Constitution depends on the good will of government itself. If the Supreme Court rules that the Bill of Rights should not interfere with the important business of government (which they have done on at least two occasions), then the Constitution is meaningless.
-- John Kormylo
"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands."
-- Alexander Penney