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It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

Dick Cavett

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
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Amazing Capacity Greatness Man
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
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Better Depression Function Patience Sadness Suicide
My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.
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Brain Intelligence Myself
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
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Chance Coincidence Thinking
You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
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People Reason Television Watch
Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction.
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Depression Direction Patience Therapy
Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.
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Comic Gift God Moments Report
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
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Dirty Food Letter Mindset Word
Greatly talented performers don’t know – often spectacularly – what’s best for them, don’t know what their talents really are, and don’t know what’s just plain wrong for them.
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Best Dumb Great Talent Unknown Wrong
Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, ‘It was a perfect script for she and I,’ inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, ‘Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?’
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Blessing Head Movie Myself Perfection Teacher
A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
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Growth Man See Tough
My dream was maybe someday, one night I can be a guest on a talk show, and then I will have achieved everything I want.
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Achievement Dreams Myself Night Someday
I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
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Away Happiness Myself Stay
Why are sex and violence always linked? I’m afraid they’ll blur together in people’s minds – sexandviolence – until we can’t tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, “The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.”
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Afraid Mindset Myself People Police Sex Violence
Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.
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Beyond Criticism Death Declare Escape Reproach
Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there’s not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.
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Amount Limitation Pressure Reading Subject Wrong

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