In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

Alexandra Robbins

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People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.

Terry Goodkind

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No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

H.L. Mencken

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The Wit of Cheats, the Courage of a Whore,
Are what ten thousand envy and adore:
All, all look up, with reverential Awe,
At crimes that 'scape, or triumph o'er the Law:
While Truth, Worth, Wisdom, daily they decry-`
'Nothing is sacred now but Villainy'

- Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue I

Alexander Pope

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By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde

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You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.

Jon Stewart

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Whoever controls the media, the
images, controls the culture.

Allen Ginsberg

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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

Rudyard Kipling

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I am suspicious of all the things that the average people believes.

H.L. Mencken

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Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Robert A. Heinlein

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