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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.

Barbara Walters

politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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Dangerous Family Future Job Land Politics Subject
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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Food Friendship Human Modern Origin Share
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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Acceptance Classification Crazy Difficult Genius People Understand
It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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Causes Facts Unfortunate
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Breathe Deep Party Shallow
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Kind Tree Yourself
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Big Complain Early Fight Job Stay
Après ski is my favorite sport.
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Favorite Skis Sports
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Clothes Dresses People
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Bigger Castro Feelings
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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Bears Challenges Purpose
All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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Believe Buddhism Heaven
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Interview Man Talk
Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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Party People Technique
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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Cuba Earth Yardsticks
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Change Grave Hands Live Myself

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