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George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans. There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory. You want a wife who is intelligent, but not too intelligent. Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall. Marriage is a bargain, and somebody has to get the worst of the bargain. Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. Love is so much better when you are not married. What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others. 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one. Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable. The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive. The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. Government expands to absorb revenue - and then some. Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons. In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top. Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble. Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. Irony is the hygiene of the mind. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses? More people out of work leads to higher unemployment. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great. If you were in a room with Kadaffi, Saddam Hussien, and John Sununu, and you only had two bullets, what would you do. Shoot John Sununu twice. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. The Godless would deny and destroy human rights .... the liberties of a nation cannot be secure when belief in God is abandoned. Atheism has no room for human rights. An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis. All American cars are basically Chevrolets. Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. Television has raised writing to a new low. Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff. I have no idea what White House statement was was issued, but I stand by it 100 percent. Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. For visions come not to polluted eyes. In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. A venturesome minority will always be eager to get off on their own... let them take risks, for Godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches- that is the right and privilege of any free American. Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia. Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them. Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time. |
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