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A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
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A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
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A great many
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A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?
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A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
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A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
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A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
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A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
Laughing Matters Act one: Satire -
A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
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A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so many different conversations as you have in journalism? Where else can you delve into the life of our times?
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A judge is to give effect in general not to his own scale of values, but to the scale of values revealed to him in his readings of the social mind.... Objective tests may fail him, or may be confused as to bewilder. He must then look within himself.
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