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Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.

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If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
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I’ve never not been famous.
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Vice is its own reward.
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The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
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You don’t have to deal with anyone in America. They accept you the way you are.
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I never spend my time doing anything I’ll have to do again tomorrow.
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Never sweep. After four years the dirt gets no worse.
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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
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Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?
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