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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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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal
Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
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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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
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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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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Age Believe Exercise Imagination Spirit
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
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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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
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Believe Comedy Goodness Place Stone Theatre Writing
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System

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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