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Scavenger Hunt, Part XI: Pithy Quotes, Re-Redux

Here, once again, are the prompts for our first "annual" scavenger hunt:

1. The single photograph or image that best encapsulates the Trump presidency. (Click here and here)
2. Something that would make a terrible Christmas gift for Joe Biden. (Click here)
3. A book that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell would never, ever read. (Click here)
4. A t-shirt that would be very apropos for Chief Justice John Roberts to wear. (Click here and here)
5. The wisest, most insightful, or most pithy quote ever to be uttered by a politician or political figure (need not be limited to Americans). (Click here and here)
6. The worst bumper sticker, button, yard sign or other campaign-related ephemera in U.S. history. (Click here; there's also still time to submit here)
7. A portrayal of a key figure in U.S. history—image, song, verse, book, etc.—that is even more ridiculous than Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. (Still time to submit here)
8. This isn't exactly a scavenger hunt type question, but we're going with it anyhow. Finish this joke: "Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Hillary Clinton walk into a bar..." (Still time to submit here)

We're running late in getting this posted (again), and it takes less time to put together words than pictures. So another round of pithy quotes today:

• K.N. in Dublin, Ireland: Edmund Burke: "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
  
  
• T.B. in Palm Springs, CA: William Jennings Bryan, accepting the Democrats' nomination in 1896: "Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: 'You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.'"
  
  
• A.S. in Bellevue, WA: H.L. Mencken: "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
  
  
• C.M. in Frisco, TX: Bertrand Russell: "The fundamental cause of trouble today is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
  
  
• J.L.H. in Los Altos, CA: Pithy? Julius Caesar used just three short words: "Veni, vidi, vici."
  
  
• K.L. in New York City, NY: Otto von Bismarck: "Man should not ask how his laws or his sausages are made."
  
  
• A.A. in Spotsylvania, VA: Mo Udall: "Everything has been said but not everyone has said it."
  
  
• F.B. in Los Angeles, CA: Eleanor Roosevelt: "When a woman fails, it is much more serious than when a man fails, because the average person attributes that failure not to the individual, but to the fact that she is a woman."
  
  
• J.P. in Horsham, PA: Upon leaving the White House, James Buchanan said this to Abraham Lincoln, and I've always thought it wise and introspective: "If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed."
  
  
• B.P. in Cheshire, NY: Attributed to Winston Churchill: "Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions."
  
  
• L.M. in Tampa, FL: In 1967, before Pierre Trudeau became the Prime Minister of Canada, he was the Justice Minister. In that role, he introduced reforms to decriminalize homosexual acts. In an interview, he said to reporters: "There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."
  
  
• S.D. in Chicago, IL: Edwin Edwards: "The only place where David Duke and I are alike is we are both wizards under the sheets."

Tomorrow, it will definitely be some ridiculous portrayals. (Z)