All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Europe began as the relatively empty, uncivilized Wild West of Asia; then the Western Hemisphere became the Wild West of Europe. Now the sun has set in our West and risen once more in the East.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military.
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It is always a delicate matter, when a friend or acquaintance becomes president.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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You hear all this whining going on, ‘Where are our great writers?’ The thing I might feel doleful about is: Where are the readers?
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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Corporations must pay tax.
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