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

Joseph Heller

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Imagination Mercy Process Understand
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Children Favor Influence Liberation Parents War

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