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The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Joseph Heller

You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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Appreciation Character Courage Intelligence Moral
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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Adjective Adverb Death Declare Hands
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Country Crazy Executive Scare
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
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Book Conflict Deal Fashion Opinion Rude Subject
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Country Dare Exercise Freedom Independence Traditonal
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Dreams Night
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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Change Confidence Courage Discovery Dread Fear Lost
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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Deal Greatness Important Work

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