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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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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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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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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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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Alone Best Deeply Had
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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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Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
Dies Freedom Something Unless
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All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Determine Future Ground Hierarchy
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When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Able Age Ask Believe
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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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On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Able Climb Either Higher
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In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

Always Bad Cooking Education
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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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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.
Confuse Defeat Final Never
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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 test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Ability First-Rate Function Hold
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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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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Admitting Advertising Business Cannot
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

According Aches Any Because
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
Ability Effect Genius Mind
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Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Discipline Either Else Natural
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Awe-Inspiring Curious Display Drunk
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

Any Did Forties Friends
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Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Cut Exclamation Joke Laughing
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Cards Carefully Girl Great
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Both Find Hands Lucky
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Charm Combined Distinction Fascinated
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Accuracy Equivalent Observation Thinking
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.

Because Bottom Boy Echoes
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.

Looks Man Poet Way
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Artifice Extent Imagination Life
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Bore Complicated Else Everything
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

About Acute Deal Egotism
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The imagination is man's power over nature.

Imagination Man Nature Over
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Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Art Comparison Intolerance Itself
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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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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Bluff Charming Depths Heads
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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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It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Before Met People Rude
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Consciousness Few First Great
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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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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

Against Hope Hopes Last
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
Art Contempt Great Great Art
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It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Between Difference Intelligence Me
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Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Cheat Come Conditions Deeper
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Afterwards Always Critics Ever
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