"Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass."
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"It is never a mistake to say good-bye."
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"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
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"The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do."
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"I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash."
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"Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing."
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"It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up."
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"People stopped calling themselves Freethinkers because it was so specifically German and anything German was terribly unpopular because of the two world wars. My family became Unitarians instead - it's the same sort of thing."
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"Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do."
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"The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways."
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"One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living."
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"I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their slaves. Then after 150 years they should give their women the right to vote. Oh, and of course when they start it all they should begin with some genocide and ethnic cleansing."
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"The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to include such a dream among its fundamental legal documents. I defend it because it has been so successful for two centuries in preserving our freedom and increasing our vitality, knowing that all arguments in support of it are certain to sound absurd."
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"Love may fail, but # courtesy will prevail."
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"The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world."
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"You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away."
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"What antidote can there be for an idea that popular and poisonous? Revenge provides revenge, which is sure to provide revenge, forming an endless chain of human misery. Here's the antidote: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. Amen."
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"Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today."
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"The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were."
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"The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers."
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