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"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything."
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"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
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"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."
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"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."
Art
"Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest."
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"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything."
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"Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind."
Choice
"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance."
Art
"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."
History
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
Life
"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."
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"'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'"
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"The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds."
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"Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television."
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"The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives."
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"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything."
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"Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican."
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"I am certainly a liberal."
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"To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree."
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"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."
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"This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic."
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