“The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.”
Wilson Mizner (1876–1933) American writer
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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”
Attribution debunked in Langworth's Churchill by Himself. First known appearance is in a 1992 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=rec.arts.comics.misc/EMj3ZowKq1U/E0dsEBwdZEgJ. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Source: Google books link https://books.google.com/books?id=vbsU21fEhLAC&q=average+voter#v=snippet&q=average%20voter&f=false
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“That maxim, it’s not an argument against atheism—it’s an argument against foxholes.”
James K. Morrow book Towing Jehovah
Source: Towing Jehovah (1994), Chapter 8, “Famine” (p. 213)
