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Mae West (I'm No Angel)—
When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better.
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Anthony Powell (Hearing Secret Harmonies)—
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
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Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay (Yes, Prime Minister) [cf. Donald Rumsfeld]—
So that means you need to know things even when you don't need to know them. You need to know them not because you need to know them but because you need to know whether or not you need to know. And if you don't need to know you still need to know so that you know that there was no need to know.