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"I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind."
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"Her philosophy was, if it had a pulse, it could be killed. I didn't really have a philosophy, but I could see how talking with the school director would be difficult for her. If he said something she didn't like, chopping him to tiny pieces wouldn't exactly help me get into the school."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first can make the second."
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"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."
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"Grub first, then ethics."
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"I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind."
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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."
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"Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately."
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"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."
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"I am commanding you, as an older and wiser brother, to get over here, get on this caterpillar, and ride to the top of this mushroom with me."
Friendship

"Souris says you wanted to see me, so here I am. Talk quick before I decide to beat the shit out of you and throw your bloody carcass back across the International Date Line."
Humor

"Uh-oh, I hope he doesn't start rattling off dirty limericks next; she'll probably burn the hotel down."
Comedy

"And just so you know-that winter forest we walked into first? That was from Through the Looking Glass too. Hey, if you're going to saddle me with the blame for your overconsumption, at least get the book right."
Blame

"So, while we're sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn't someone tell me the plan?"
Lifestyle

"Don't take this the wrong way, but Australians have a LOT of bitches on their cashola."
Social

"Mouse likes to drag you to uninhabited areas with no cell signal-all those places perfect for dying of exposure."
Survival

"The words 'drink me' come to mind. Anyone besides me up for some heavy alcohol consumption?"
Humor

"Aw, you're nothing but heart, Mako. Nice valentine in your skull, by the way. Is that temporary or did the Tanaka-kai change their daimon to attract the Powerpuff Girls crowd?"
Humor

"I don't know what this is for anyway. I mean, let me tell you what I'm never going to say to any human being, ever: 'I had hunting season off-suit in the pocket, but I've had kicker trouble with that hand often enough to fold it."
Humor
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