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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after.
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A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.
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A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me.
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A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
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A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.
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A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
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America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.
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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
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Beggar: One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
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Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
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Do not let Sunday be taken from you If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
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Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Source: Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941)
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