The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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The unfed mind devours itself.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
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I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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He who is last had best laugh.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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There’s a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.
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Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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