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"Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills."
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"He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him."

"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."

"Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental."

"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."

"In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."
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"Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due."

"Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking."

"NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi."

"I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats."

"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."

"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."
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