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Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for…
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
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The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,…
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There is only one basic human right: the right to do as you please, without causing others harm. With it comes our…
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A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is…
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Zen martini: A martini with no vermouth at all. And no gin, either.
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Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.
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Whatever the occasion, do not neglect alcohol. No other refreshment will do. Yes, alcohol kills brain cells, but it's very selective. It…
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You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you…
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Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no…
— Alexander the Great
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According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his…
— Jeff Cooper
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O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the…
— Cyrus the Great
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If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day…
— Herodotus
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Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past…
— Arrian
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We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.
— Mary Renault
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They [the Persians] are accustomed to deliberate on matters of the highest moment when warm with wine; but whatever they in this…
— Herodotus
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Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.
— Robert Graves
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MANICHEISM, n. The ancient Persian doctrine of an incessant warfare between Good and Evil. When Good gave up the fight the Persians…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus.
— Chelsea Handler
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Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove?…
— Herman Melville
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The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family…
— Bayard Taylor
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