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An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. – Romanian Proverb
An ass will with his long ears fray The flies that tickle him away; But man delights to have his ears Blown maggots in by flatterers. – Butler
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry. – Thomas Jefferson
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. – John Buchan
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief. – Franklin P. Jones
An attempt is already underway to revise history-to leave the impression that the former president had nothing to do with Watergate. But there is no doubt about his obstruction of justice after the Watergate break-in. – John J. Sirica
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. – Charles de Montesquieu
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. – George Orwell
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. – Alfred A. Knopf
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. – Nicholas Chamfort
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. – Laurence J. Peter
An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. – Alan Simpson
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. – Anatole France
An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. – Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. – Unknown
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past. – James Barrett Scotty Reston
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. – T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette"
An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications. – John Herro
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success. – M. Shawn Covey
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor. – Albert Einstein
An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect. – Mark Twain
An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. – Mark Twain
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. – George Bernard Shaw
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words. – Alfred North Whitehead
An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. – Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

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