GREAT THINKERS OF OUR TIME!
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1. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: "I would
not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were
supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live
forever, which is why I would not live forever." ---Miss Alabama in the 1994
Miss USA contest
2. "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities
in our air and water that are doing it." ---Former U. S. Vice-President Dan
Quayle
3. "Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same
reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other
similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are." ---Matt Lauer
on NBC's Today Show, August 22
4. "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."
---David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to
pay his taxes.
5. "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your
life." ---Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a
federal anti-smoking campaign.
6. "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
---Winston Bennett, Univ. of KY basketball forward
7. "Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in
the country." ---Mayor Marion Barry, Washington, DC
8. "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." ---Jason Kidd, upon his
drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
9. "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the
president." ---Hillary Clinton commenting on the release of subpoenaed
documents.
10. "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." ---Former French
President Charles De Gaulle
11. "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
---General William Westmoreland
And last but not least -- a parting word from Dan Quayle: 14. "I love
California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."
Kinda makes you feel pretty smart doesn't it!