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The question now is: Can we understand our stupidity? This is a test of intellect, not of character.


John King Fairbank

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STEPHEN KING The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes t...
FLORENCE KING Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. W...
FLORENCE KING I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
LARRY KING I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined for 70 points.
STACEY KING Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the pl...
FLORENCE KING Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good h...
ALEXANDER KING Sometimes I stay up so late that I have my morning coffee before I go to bed.
ALEXANDER KING The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.
MACKENZIE KING The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
STEPHEN KING There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.
STEPHEN KING I am your number one fan.
STEPHEN KING Be strong and of good courage; fear not or be dismayed; for the Lord, even my God, will be with thee...
KING DAVID Cats are magical. . .the more you pet them the longer you both live.
STEPHEN KING Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.
FLORENCE KING ...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
STEPHEN KING You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it...
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