"Benchley and I had an office in the old Life magazine that was so tiny, if it were an inch smaller it would have been adultery."
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"I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office."
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"The post office says they're raising the price of stamps by one cent because they need to upgrade their equipment. Apparently, they're going from semi-automatics to uzis."
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"When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank."
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"I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office."
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"The capital gains tax is 15 percent now. So I sit there in my office and I make a lot of money by capital gains, and I pay 15 percent, and I pay no payroll tax on it."
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"When I'm in office I always keep Members of Parliament talking. If they stopped they might start thinking."
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"If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace."
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"Therefore all just persons are satisfied with their own praise. They refuse to explain themselves, and are content that new actions should do them that office. They believe that we communicate without speech, and above speech, and that no right action of ours is quite unaffecting to our friends, at whatever distance; for the influence of action is not to be measured by miles."
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"I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail."
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"Obama, he wouldn't have been in office without what happened to me and a lot of black people before me. He would never have been in that situation, no doubt in my mind. He would get there eventually, but it would have been a lot longer. So I am glad for what I went through. It opened the doors for a lot of people."
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"The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one."
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"The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes."
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"I have great respect for the office of the presidency and I really do believe that Donald Trump wants to do a good job."
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"The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy."
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"All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office."
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"Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres."
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"It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue."
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"There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal."
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"She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male."
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