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The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence.
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The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
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Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...
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Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.
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to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
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I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New York, and Yemen - suggest to our terrorist enemies that it was wrong and unwise to kill reasonable and affable people, or did the easy killing imply that self-absorbed and pampered Lotus-eaters would not much care who or how many were butchered as long as it was within reasonable numbers and spread out over time?
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The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something 8-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, one that lasts 30 dynasties spread over 3,000 years.
