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"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"World War II was the last government program that really worked."
Government
"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."
Poetry
"If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone."
Job
"Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good."
Politics
"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."
Being
"Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!""
Boys
"A society that thinks the choice between ways of living is just a choice between equally eligible "lifestyles" turns universities into academic cafeterias offering junk food for the mind."
Food
"Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses."
Ambition
"In the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."
Sacrifice
"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends."
Friendship
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