“ Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ”
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“ Don’t try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. ”
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“ An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. ”
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“ An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong. ”
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“ Life is always walking up to us and saying, ‘Come on in, the living’s fine,’ and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. ”
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“ The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ”
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“ The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. ”
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“ Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. ”
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“ An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious just dead wrong. ”
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“ Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. ”
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“ An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious just dead wrong. ”
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“ So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor, magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and 20 or 30 billion dollars and, vroom! There he is, up on a rock, a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. ”
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“ Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. ”
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“ I was converted from fool when my spine was somewhat reorganized. What amazed me was how fast a perfectly robust man looking forward to nothing more terminal than a night in Toledo can cease being alive once he pulls the dreamboat out of the driveway. ”
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“ A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it. ”
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“ The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist. ”
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“ All politicians are humble, and seldom let you forget it. They go around the country boasting about their humility. They are proud of their humility. Many are downright arrogant about their humility and insist that it qualifies them to be President. ”
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“ When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond. ”
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“ In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved. ”
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“ When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond. ”
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“ When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag. ”
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“ Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases. ”
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“ Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases. ”
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“ Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases. ”
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“ Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. ”
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“ Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperatelly? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. ”
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“ In today's highly complex society it takes years of training in rationalization, accommodation, and compromise to qualify for the good jobs with the really big payoffs. ”
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