Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Envy is the central fact of American life.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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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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For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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I was raised in the Washington household of my grandfather Senator Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma, and have known politicians intimately all my life.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.
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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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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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