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"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
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"Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood."
"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."
"Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen."
"I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not."
"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."
"Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10."
"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
"High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible."
"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."
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"Sorry... my mind was wandering... one time it went all the way to Venus and ordered a meal I couldn't pay for."
"There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators."
"If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?"
"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
"Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'"
"When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving."
"Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'"
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