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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."
"All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them."
"Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place."
"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."
"Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen."
"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."
"I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not."
"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."
"Pragmatism is good prevention for problems."
"It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic."
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"Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores."
"Analyzing dreams is much like walking on water. There are a limited number of people who do it well."
"And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever."
"Yeah, world peace would be all right, but what about a day off in a slab of ham the size of my head."
"Men have two outstanding features--their brains and their genitalia. Unfortunately, both rarely function simultaneously."
"He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy."
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