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Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail…
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People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.
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Many men think they're playboys, but they invariably land wide of the mark. Surrounding yourself with champagne, fast friends, and paid escorts…
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Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in…
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Life is all about seating and lighting.
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We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the…
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After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately…
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As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
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As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
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Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from…
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Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
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Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.
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Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B…
— Graydon Carter
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Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing in life is fun for the whole family. There are no massage parlors with ice cream and free jewelry.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was…
— Gay Talese
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Women go to beauty parlors for the unmussed look men hate.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and…
— Walt Whitman
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The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors…
— Walt Whitman
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In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we…
— Saul Bellow
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I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Ive gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a…
— Maria
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