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"Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?"
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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"
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"Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible."
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"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"
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"Half of the world population is dying from poverty and hunger and still you think you are not rich enough."
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"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."
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"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."
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"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."
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"The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness."
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"I think I can speak for every Senator, saying that he or she ran for the Senate because we want to help make this a better place; that is, we want to help our States and help America."
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"Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round"."
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"Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night."
Circumstance
"We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin."
Nation
"As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse."
Aging
"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."
Television
"My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible."
Humor
"To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life."
Life
"Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing."
Writing
"The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire."
Now
"I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm definitely not religious, and I'm very tired of the preachiness and obsession with other people's behavior characteristic of many religious people in the United States. As far as I could tell, there's nothing preachy about Buddhism. I was in a lot of temples, and I still don't know what Buddhists believe, except that at one point Kunio said 'If you do bad things, you will be reborn as an ox.'This makes as much sense to me as anything I ever heard from, for example, the Reverend Pat Robertson."
Religion
"Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?"
Society
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