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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
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The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact.
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The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.
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The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.
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The full thing is God-given. I don't know how I got my swing or what I did. I know I worked every single day. I know I did as much as I could with my dad. But I never really looked at anything mechanical. There was nothing really like, 'Oh, put your hands here.' It was, 'Where are you comfortable? You're comfortable here; hit from there.'
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The full value of this life can only be got by fighting; the violent take it by storm. And if we have accepted everything we have missed something - war. This life of ours is a very enjoyable fight, but a very miserable truce.
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The future can be anything we want it to be, providing we have the faith and that we realize that peace, no less than war, required ''blood and sweat and tears.''
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The future influences the present just as much as the past.
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The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.
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The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
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