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"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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"Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out."
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"I don't know why I'm saying I'm brave."
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"There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting."
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"I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying."
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"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."
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"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."
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"Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake."
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"Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually."
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"Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them."
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"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
Suffering

"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with."
Power

"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
People

"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
Birthday

"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead."
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"There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evil-doer."
Idea

"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear."
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"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
Friendship

"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
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