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People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
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Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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-- Henry Kissinger Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
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