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• The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious…
• A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
• Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
• All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.
• When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous,…
• Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.
• Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.
• Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
• All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.
• The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
• The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB
• In the Bob Hope Golf Classic, the participation of President Gerald Ford was more than enough to remind you that the nuclear…

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