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"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."
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"Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood."
"A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths."
"Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10."
"I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind."
"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."
"High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible."
"Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school."
"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."
"It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic."
"Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering."
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"Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone."
"You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while? "Mmm, I said. "I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?"
"Some people will tell you werewolves can only shapechange under a full moon, but people also say there's no such things as ghosts."
"MS. THOMPSON, it said in heavy block letters, PLEASE KEEP YOUR FELINE OFF MY PROPERTY. IF I SEE IT AGAIN, I WILL EAT IT."
"He sighed. "I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?"No."
"Honey will wipe the floor with you." His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. "I know."
"You going to watch my butt all day, or are you going to join me?" asked my mate."What if I had said I was going to watch your butt all day?" I asked curiously as I opened the door an stepped into the hot water."I've been considering belly-dancing lessons," he told me in a serious voice."
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