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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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I remember the Bond movies when I was a child. They were silent then.
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Children Myself Remember Silence
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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Behave Comparison Mindset Myself Team
As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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Children Country Myself Support
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Material Media Television Top
Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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Baseball Play Slow Sports
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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Beginning Europe Ourselves Sun
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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Artist Discover Emotion Important Known World
The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Beautiful Language Ourselves Word
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Obama just came swiftly out of nowhere, which was a relief to those of us who care about the Republic, and at first he seemed a very good thing.
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Goodness Government Himself Politics President Public relief
Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships.
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Assumption Enemy Ourselves Space Target

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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