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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

Barbara Walters

No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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Literature Poetic Thinking
politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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Dangerous Family Future Job Land Politics Subject
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Background Better Information Myself Party World
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Basic Better Feeling Goodness Man Nice World
When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Trouble Yourself
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Admire Food Party Milk
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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Command Greatness Intelligence People Thinking Willing Word
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Breathe Deep Party Shallow
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Benefits Office Thinking
Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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Children Sex Way
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Hard Trust Willing Yourself
But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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Drink Earth Heaven Paradise Pleasure Sex Yourself
Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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Cutting Hands Pieces
I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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Different Education Heaven Life Meaning Religious Version
I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Religious Religious Family
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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Children Self Sleep

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