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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.

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Gossip is conversation about people.
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Conversation Gossip People
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Build Meaning Novel Sex
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
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Age Perfection Progression Rule Television
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
TV news is not very instructive.
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Instruction One Liner
Corporations must pay tax.
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Corporation Pay Tax
Love is not my bag.
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Love One Liner
Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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Company Corporation Country Interest People Yourself
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Action God Karma Life Right Welfare
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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Enough Failure Success
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Deserve Enough Stupidity

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