- A good deed never goes unpunished.
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- Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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- Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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- Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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- For certain people after 50, litigation takes the place of sex.
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- For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
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- Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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- I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.
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- I'm a born-again atheist.
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- It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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- It is not enough to succeed; others must fail.
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- Never have children, only grandchildren.
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- Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery.
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- Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
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- Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.
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- The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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- The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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- There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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- Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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- Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
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