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Quotes by Columnist
"Eating without conversation is only stoking."
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"If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date."
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"A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."
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"We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do."
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"Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become."
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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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"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."
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"You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do."
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"It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him."
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"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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"No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an adolescent."
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"A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way."
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"Stunning vistas don't always produce eloquence."
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"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."
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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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"We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate."
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"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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"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."
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"You still can't find Israel on a map of the Middle East in a Palestinian schoolbook."
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"We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time."
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"The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her."
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"Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door."
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"One sure way to lose another woman's friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements."
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"Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance."
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"The real reason I run is to bring honor to Jesus."
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"Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government."
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"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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"Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam."
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"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it."
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