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"Long ago I decided that at a political meeting the truth usually comes out in just such a speech or a remark ignored at the time because its tone is not that of the meeting. Humorous, or satirical, or even angry or bitter - yet it's the truth, and all the long speeches and contributions are nonsense."
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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."
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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."
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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
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"There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old liberals must never had progressed into conservatives as they grew older."
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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."
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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."
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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."
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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
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"Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."
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"Pearls mean tears."
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"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."
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"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer."
Thought

"In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better."
Writing

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
Life

"It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction."
Truth

"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."
Opportunity

"There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be."
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