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• When is conduct a crime, and when is a crime not a crime? When "Somebody Up There" - a monarch, a dictator,…
• Things on the whole are much faster in America; people don't 'stand for election', they 'run for office.'
• I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
• Objectivity? I've always had an objective.
• Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
• Now there is a society where the funeral industry got completely out of control.
• One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine,…
• I discovered that Human Nature was not, as I had always supposed, a fixed and unalterable entity, that wars are not caused…
• Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.
• It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
• Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into…
• You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

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