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“We live in a time where increasingly our national leaders are more like dons of crime than statesmen, where notions of plausible deniability replace truth, and claims that politicians never knew of evil done in their own names by others are commonplace. It is the age of unbridled arrogance and video showmanship, where the challenge ' prove what I knew and when I knew it ' has become a national motto.”
― Undue Influence
― Undue Influence
“He always wanted to leap and tear the throat out of a problem. He took no aesthetic pleasure in measuring a problem and living with it for a time before deciding it was even desireable to try to slay it. In short, he was more quick than wise. He never appreciated the comfort that a worthy enemy could provide.”
― The Vicar of Christ
― The Vicar of Christ
“Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“Most men, the herd, have never tasted solitude. They leave father and mother, but only to crawl to a wife and quietly succumb to new warmth and ties. They are never alone, they never commune with themselves. And when a solitary man crosses their path, they fear him and hate him like the plague, they fling stones at him and find no peace until they are far from him.”
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“Being funny for its own sake is very estimable. It's a nice thing but if you continue to be very funny, if you persist in it, you turn into a crank, like any other crank, because you become clever and you're always alert for an opportunity to make another crack and then you become silly. There has to be measure in these things and the humor has to be your humor and it has to be natural to you and without strain. So wit is a very good thing but persistent cleverness in wit can be very boring and trying to people.”
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