The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.
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Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.
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I hate nobody.
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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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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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