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A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
—Anonymous, Financial Times, 31 Jan. 1976
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
—Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
In every age “the good old days” were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
—Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun, 8 Feb 1951
It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
—A. J. Ayer, Observer, 17 Aug. 1986
To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
—Bernard Baruch, Newsweek, 29 Aug. 1955
I don’t like authority, at least I don’t like other people’s authority.
—A. C. Benson, Excerpts from Letters to M.E.A. (1926) p. 41
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
—G. K. Chesterton, New York Times, 1 Feb. 1931, pt. 5, p. 1
The script goes through each <li> element in an unordered list with an id of “quotes.” If the element’s number matches the random number, it gets added a class “selected,” otherwise it gets added a class “hide.” The actual display on the page is controlled with CSS. If you check the "Source" view, you can see all the quotes are still on the page for better SEO.