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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year. This is quite a profitable sum, especially when one consider that the Mafia spends very little for office supplies.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
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Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.
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Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.
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Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.
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Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
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Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.
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Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
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Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
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Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.
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Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
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Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.
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The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
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