Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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I’m not paranoid, no. I’m different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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