"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.”
“If I'm very drunk, I can improvise. But generally speaking, no. Generally speaking, almost all of my work is material that was first done on the printed page. And the shorter ones that you might call poems, I had a stretch from '79, '80, for five or six years, where I wrote a lot of poetry as such. Simply because I was asked to.”

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“Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.”
“[Adolf Hitler] hardly ever called [Eva Braun] "Eva." He had many Austrian diminutives for her. He called her "Evi" quite often as well as Schatzerl, Evchen, as well as other Austrian expressions.”
“The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.”
“Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.”
“Curst is the wretch enslaved to such a vice, Who ventures life and soul upon the dice.”
“In the first place, bureaucracies never become efficient; they're never going to get rid of administrative costs; they're never going to reduce them. That's not the purpose of bureaucracies. It's to increase those things.”

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