"His brothers were the type; he was the variation."

-- Henry Adams

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“By this you may see who are the rude and barbarous Indians: For verily there is no savage nation under the cope of Heaven, that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us.”
“Every time we love, we increase our capacity to be hurt.”
“In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.”
“No man of honor, as the word is usually understood, did ever pretend that his honor obliged him to be chaste or temperate, to pay his creditors, to be useful to his country, to do good to mankind, to endeavor to be wise or learned, to regard his word, his promise, or his oath.”
“Lords are lordliest in their wine.”
“Ironically, survey after survey shows that married men are happier and healthier than unmarried men. Oh, and they also have more sex.”

Source : "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Interview, www.today.com. August 03, 2010.
“There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.”
“[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mÃ©lange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the perfect show for the most intensely competitive culture in this solar system.”

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