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Quotes by Columnist

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."

"German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship."

"If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date."

"Eating without conversation is only stoking."


"Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become."

"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."

"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back."

"We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate."

"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."

"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."

"Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy."

"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."

"Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it."

"Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in."

"You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook."

"The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her."

"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."

"Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility."

"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."

"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."

"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."

"Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits."

"Stunning vistas don't always produce eloquence."

"What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's."

"It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come."

"Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too."

"Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors."
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