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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

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The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
Everything’s wrong on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia Wrong
Does one ever read a politician’s books?
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Book Oneself Politics Reading
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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Busy Oneself Sadness Writing
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it’s true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
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Angry Myself Nature Thinking
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening.
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Character Creation Impression Myself Settle Writing
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics

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