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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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Home is where you hang your architect.
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Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very…
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.
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Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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But if God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?
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To put a woman on the ticket would challenge the loyalty of women everywhere to their sex, because it would be made…
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies,…
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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