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"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort."
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"When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one."

"Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible."

"It's not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth - but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying."

"It had never occurred to me that a person could know all the right things to say and deploy them to get what she wanted, without having to mean any of it."

"Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography."
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"All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged."


"The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap."


"In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism."


"Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer."


"A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government."


"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands."


"I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort."
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