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A hearty bah-humbug toast to university officials who make Christian and Jewish students feel like second class citizens at a time that should be full of brotherly love and giving. – Becket Executive Director Montse Alvarado	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.” – Vincent Van Gogh	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. – Eugène Ionesco	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial. – Albert Camus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Vox populi, vox humbug. – William Tecumseh Sherman	added by anonymous 13 years ago
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. – Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
'A merry Christmas, uncle God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge. 'Humbug' – Charles Dickens	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago

A hearty bah-humbug toast to university officials who make Christian and Jewish students feel like second class citizens at a time that should be full of brotherly love and giving.

– Becket Executive Director Montse Alvarado

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

– Vincent Van Gogh

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

– Eugène Ionesco

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

– Albert Camus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Vox populi, vox humbug.

– William Tecumseh Sherman

added by anonymous
13 years ago

[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

– Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

'A merry Christmas, uncle God save you' cried a cheerful voice. 'Bah' said Scrooge. 'Humbug'

– Charles Dickens

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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