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"The root system supports the branches."

"The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this."

"By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."

"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling."

"Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
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"Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly."

"English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did."

"If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions."

"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."
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