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You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

James Thurber

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves
Discussion in America means dissent.
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Country Discussion
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals
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Animal Dog Fun Laughter Man Reason
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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Artist Childhood Man Remember
Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?
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Darkness Dreams Fear Sleep
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Sixty minutes of thinking of any kind is bound to lead to confusion and unhappiness.
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Confusion Happiness Thinking
Boys are beyond the range of anybody’s sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
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Behavior Man Mindset Understand
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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Desperate Live Man Noisy
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
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Fools People Time Yourself
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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