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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat."

"I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it."
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real."
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"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go."

"People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know."

"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."

"The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one."

"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."
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