Never have children, only grandchildren.
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Never have children, only grandchildren.
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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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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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I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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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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Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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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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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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