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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.
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Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
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Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
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Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.
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Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.
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Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history.
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