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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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Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of…
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Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
— Immanuel Kant
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When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns…
— Annie Leibovitz
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It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the…
— Alfred Binet
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Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value…
— George Steiner
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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even…
— Ralph Cavanagh
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It may be that without a vision men shall die. It is no less true that, without hard practical sense, they shall…
— James Truslow Adams
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Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in…
— Barbara Corcoran
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I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its…
— Daniil Kharms
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Foundational autonomy asserts instead that in the most fundamental practical sense, I am my own creator, which means that at the core,…
— David Novak
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