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I was sailing from tedium to apathy with a side trip to torpor.
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Humor is the shock absorber of life; it helps us take the blows.
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Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.
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When men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.
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You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in, That world is gone.
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TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.
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Now he is a statesman, when what he really wants is to be what most reporters are, adult delinquents.
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Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.
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The most qualified? No. I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullshit about narratives.
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I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.
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Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.
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We are all actors now.... Everyone in America now explains a moment in their lives by saying, 'It was like a scene out of...'
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Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice — like a beautiful, softly swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.
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The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I. Never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
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My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
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I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.
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A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.
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If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
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I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.
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If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
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When you forget yourself and your fear, when you get beyond self-consciousness because your mind is thinking about what you are trying to communicate, you become a better communicator
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I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
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At some point, don't voters start to see all of public life as one big polluted river? And if they do, don't they stop saying things like "That's a busted tire floating by" and "That's an old shoe"?
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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