"Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace."
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"Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens."
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"I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual."
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"We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not."
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"When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives."
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"I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common."
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"I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we spend what little rational thought we have in justifying our irrationality."
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"Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there."
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"Love is the wild card of existence."
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"I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have."
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"I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat."
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"Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score."
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"Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning."
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"The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts."
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"All decisions are made on insufficient evidence."
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"Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship."
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"In sports, as in love, one can never pretend."
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"I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull."
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"Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."
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"I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can."
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