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| A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough. |
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| A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. |
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| A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. |
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| A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy |
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| An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service |
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| Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. |
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Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to him and dear to him. Its portentous
nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; the executive walks among ink erasers caparisoned like a knight. This we should be tolerant of--every man of spirit wants to ride a white horse. ... A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express his precise meaning. |
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| Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. |
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| Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time |
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| English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. |
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| Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. |
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| From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive |
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| Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one |
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| I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially. |
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| I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating." |
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| I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. |
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| I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. |
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| I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens |
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| I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. |
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