"I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be."
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"The more fantastic an ideology or theology, the more fanatic its adherents."
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"Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable."
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"I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature."
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"The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space."
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"The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality."
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"The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan."
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"You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down."
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"The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations."
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"Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all."
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"All governments require enemy governments."
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"Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy."
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"Simplicity is always a virtue."
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"Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it."
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"How can I be so evil? It ain't easy."
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"Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_."
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"It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life."
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"It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other."
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"Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more."
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"In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race."
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