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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

Joseph Heller

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
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Achievement Born Medicore Mediocrity Men Sarcastic Thrust
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
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
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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Bulling Difficult Drug Endurance Failure Meditation Success Suicide
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
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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Angel Decent Heaven Human Impulse Poeple Saint Tragedy
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge

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