“Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!”
Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer
“a politician is an arse upon
which everyone has sat except a man”
— E.E. Cummings, book 1 × 1
Source: 1 x 1 (1944), X
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