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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually seem to…
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has…
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which attracts public…
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and…
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for…
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on…
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government…
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to…
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are…
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
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Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
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We started with the basics of kicking and punching, then we moved on once we got proficient in that, we moved on…
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Once we got the scene down, we were told to improv.
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Truth would quickly cease to become stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it
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I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't…
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