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We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation. In all honesty, Johnny, we are often at the mercy of the White House for the news we report. Frequently, we simply repeat verbatim what the White House tells us. Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A. California, the department store state. Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. The mistakes are all there waiting to be made. Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. I only drink to make other people seem interesting. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. Old age is always fifteen years older than I am. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. When women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands. The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia. When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are. "The Good Book" - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined. Art is I; science is we. Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. All generalizations are dangerous, even this one. What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence. Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most. A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up. What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for. Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on. In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance. He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples. (Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. Half of analysis is anal. Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind? What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate. A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. Name me and emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball. Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less in human beings of whom they know nothing. |
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