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"I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not."
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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."
"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."
"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."
"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."
"Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease."
"Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place."
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"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."
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"Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach, I agreed. He looked blank, so I repeated it with proper emphasis. " ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH."
"No, really," I said. "Now that we know that Flores is really this nasty, fiery, superpowerful nothing-can-kill-me demon from hell, maybe we should consider just giving Christy to him?"
"When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone-'I didn't mean to startle her."
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"Cheeky. Carry them for nine months, feed them, clothe them, and what do I get? Impertinence."
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