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"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."
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"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."

"Sometimes consequences are building blocks fashioned of granite when successes are shaped of clay."

"There are consequences to ignoring consequences that are a consequence of my blatant unwillingness to learn from my consequences."

"We work hard to believe that our actions really don't affect others all that much because we want the license to act without thinking all that much."

"Only a fool lights a fire and tries to hide at the same time."

"No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death!"

"Consequences are not the spoiler that kills my dreams. Rather, they are the lessons that enhance my dreaming."

"The only thing destroying us is ignorance."

"The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history."

"Let us draw from the crib the joy and deep peace that Jesus comes to bring to the world."
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"I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived."

"The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad."

"Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy."

"There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380 SL convertible."

"The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it."

"In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character."
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