The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
BENNETT CERFGross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.
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TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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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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Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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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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The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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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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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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I don’t stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.
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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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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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