"A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservative -- before they tell you.
Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut)." »Frank Mankiewicz
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"Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain." »Pierre Trudeau
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"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." »Bertrand Russell
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"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." »Stephen Covey
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"My main hope for myself is to be where I am." »Woody Harrelson
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"It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well." »Rene Descartes
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"Man's main task is to give birth to himself." »Erich Fromm
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"Flexibility is one of the main roads leading to happiness." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing." »Lady Nancy Astor
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"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian." »H. L. Mencken
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"The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist." »George Bernard Shaw
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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." »Erich Fromm
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"The main thing needed to make men happy is intelligence." »Bertrand Russell
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"The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it." »Bill Cosby
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"Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it." »George Carlin, From his book - Brain Droppings
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"Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy." »Walt Whitman
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"It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing." »Jim Dodge
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"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan." »Tom Landry
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"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long." »Hunter S. Thompson
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"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably." »George Bernard Shaw
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"My faith is that I don't believe in fate! We are not puppets or zombies of destiny. We are the main painters of our life's canvas." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny." »Norman Cousins
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"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality." »Erich Fromm
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"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed." »Alfred A. Montapert
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"Don't worry about the unexpected changes in your life. It may catch you off-guard but when you move on with the flow, you will realize that's the main thing which made you stronger every time it hit you !!" »Sinduja Rajendra Prasad
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"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort." »Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need." »Harvey Cox
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"I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then when somebody comes up act like they just woke up and go, 'What was THAT'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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