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Quotes by Columnist
"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."
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"If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date."
68
"Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become."
66
"Eating without conversation is only stoking."
62
"We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate."
61
"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."
61
"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
60
"German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship."
59
"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."
59
"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."
57
"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."
56
"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."
55
"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."
53
"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."
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"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."
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"The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her."
52
"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."
51
"Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility."
50
"Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits."
50
"You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook."
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"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."
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"What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's."
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"Stunning vistas don't always produce eloquence."
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"It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come."
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"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."
45
"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves."
42
"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do."
42
"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."
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