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It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

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The people do not decide issues, they decide who shall decide.

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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

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It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.

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Twenty years ago rooting for the Yankees was like rooting for IBM.

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For conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

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Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

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This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

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Man is messy, but any creature that can create space vehicles can probably cope.

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The American people are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

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All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

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Disparagement of television is second only to watching television as an American pastime.

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Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

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As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

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Most presidents come to Washington bright as freshly minted dimes and leave much diminished.

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A decrease in the quantity of legislation generally means an increase in the quality of life.

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Americans are overreachers; overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.

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Stalin's henchman Molotov, 96, died old and in bed, a privilege he helped to deny to millions.

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Advertising tries to be a pyromaniac igniting conflagrations of desires for instant gratification.

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I think baseball is more serious than any Latin American revolution. But then, I am a serious fan.

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Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to disregard an Everest of evidence for it.

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All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

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The future has a way of arriving unannounced. Its arrival is jolting when people have not prepared for it.

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Football combines the two worst features of American life: it's violence punctuated by committee meetings.

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A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.

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Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

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All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

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