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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
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"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."
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"I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage."
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"A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now."
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"And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue."
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"I am a conservative and proud of it."
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"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters."
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"I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative."
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"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
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"Conservative's the last thing I am."
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"I'm as conservative as they come."
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"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."
Art


"I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker."
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"Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures."
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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
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"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."
People


"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."
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"Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons."
Animals


"Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."
Reading


"What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us."
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"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."
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