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"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes."
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"I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up."

"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed."

"My eye muscles hurt now when I read our MasterCard bill."

"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others."
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"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear."


"There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor."


"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."
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