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"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."

"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."

"All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you."

"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."

"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."

"Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be."

"Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey."

"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
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"Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact."

"To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!"

"Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything properly describable as the level of serious thought. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. That is to say, they never think anything that has not been thought before and by thousands."

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem-neat, plausible, and wrong."
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