The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
ALAN CORENDemocracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
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Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come.
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
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The word “souvenir” has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless.
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I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit.
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It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.
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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
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The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.
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Kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden.
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10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?
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Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a “Wirtschaftswunder,” which can be briefly translated as “The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one.”
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
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Disneyworld… is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin’s, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan’s.
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Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.
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All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
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