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"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."
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"A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths."
"Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!"
"Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering."
"We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
"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've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind."
"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."
"It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic."
"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."
"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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"Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us."
"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid."
"Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue."
"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."
"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased."
"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."
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