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"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

"I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay."

"We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'."
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"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."

"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."

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

"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."
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