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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.
Around Bigger Christians Even
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I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

Elephant Ever Every Remember
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Logic is no answer to passion.
Answer Logic Passion
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A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

City Clash Conflict Eternal
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A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

City Dreams Height Length
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A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.

Against Ahead City Concrete
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I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

Around Bad Does Every
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A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Admire Author Beautifully Business
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Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.
Commercials Doing Like Philosophically
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Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
Crazy Die Live May
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Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

Addict Ask Because Gambling
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I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Imagination Learned Long Much
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Gets Going Pro Turn
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I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Advocate Alcohol Always Anyone
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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Edge Explain Gone Honest
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No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Counsel Easily Fool Foolish
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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

Comb Dew Gray Hairs
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You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Eye Hunting Knife Never
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There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Binge Depths Ether Helpless
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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

Always Beyond Chain Civilization
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That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

Always Anybody Between Came
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Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Considers Crime Going Happy
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Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Art Controlling Environment Politics
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You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Better Care Gonna Hands
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For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

Beauty Every Instance Many
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If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Crazy Else Get Going
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.

Caught Closed Crime Everybody
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The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Around Bummer Hooked Like
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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

Clear Despite Efforts Make
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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
Dies Freedom Something Unless
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Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
Reason Tomorrow Weirdness Why
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Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Another Ignorance Just Paranoia
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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Allowed American Been Corrupt
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I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

Been Ever Here Journalism
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I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there's been a reaction, there's been no journalism. It's cause and effect.

Cause Effect Ends Journalism
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Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Anticipate Democracy Evolved Jefferson
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I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Against Happens Just Law
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The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

Between Difference Insane Lock
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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There might be some serious fun in politics.
Fun Might Politics Serious
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Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

Artist Based Fairytale Fiction
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I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Ability Beyond Despite Good
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All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

Blood Democracy Dies Drained
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Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

Addiction Comfortable Everybody Guilty
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There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.

Always Business Football Gambling
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'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

Art Crazy Insane Law
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

Freedom Guaranteed Only Own
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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Confuse Everywhere News Newspapers
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Because Children Delight Discovered
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Because Begins Father Growing
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