"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy."
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"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."
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"My sore throats are always worse than anyone's."
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"In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility."
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"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest."
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"I feed on good soup, not beautiful language."
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"Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world."
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"On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died."
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"The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded."
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"Truths and roses have thorns about them."
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"I don't see gender as the most significant fact of human existence."
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"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."
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"It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get."
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"Children make your life important."
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"True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision."
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"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior."
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"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."
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"Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it."
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"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
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"Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases."
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