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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…
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Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air and water. Men can employ it as a…
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We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes…
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The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand…
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Never in the history of the world have so many people been so rich; never in the history of the world have…
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Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of…
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The supply of government exceeds demand.
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A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the…
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations…
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a…
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Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity.…
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Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.
— Mark Twain
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It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just…
— Mark Twain
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Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.
— C J Cherryh
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The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of…
— Robertson Davies
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From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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A story begins and it always passes from the subjunctive to the declarative. And Italians don't seem to care about making a…
— Donna Leon
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Gosh. The subjunctive is always the first to go.
— David Mitchell
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Why?" she screamed. "Are you crazy? You know the English subjunctive, you understand trigonometry, you can read Marx, and you don't know…
— Haruki Murakami
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It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.
— Alan Bennett
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As you know, we're studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to base our decision on sound science, the scientists told…
— George W. Bush
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