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Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

Bennett Cerf

Most of the things that are supposed to be so objectionable in books are things that every teenager, in the United States, not only knows, but has talked about at length in school, or on the way home from school.
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Book Home Teenager
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
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
There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
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Else Nothing People Television
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
I think it’s become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I’ve heard many people, boast, “I would never have a television set in my house,” well, these people are fools.
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Fun People Thinking
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
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
I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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God Love Shutter
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Age Peace War
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup

Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.

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