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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

Bennett Cerf

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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Age Birthday Middle
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.
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Education School Teaching
TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.
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Differences Effectiveness Ghost Stories
I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.
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Intelligent Rights Thinking
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Age Peace War
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
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Football Men Years
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert’s writing was hazy, Ep’s statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.
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Crazy Poetry Writing
The fact that we don’t read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.
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Book Country Facts
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
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Cooking Food Speech

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

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