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"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
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"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
"A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now."
"White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."
"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
"Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill."
"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
"The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill."
"A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one."
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"The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened."
"There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit."
"There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves."
"We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history."
"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence."
"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
"The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion."
"There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone."
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