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The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not che

The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Future
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Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Peace
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In my experience, its not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows. – Michael Mandelbaum

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funny
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I really dont have any solutions and I dont like movies that do. – Charlie Kaufman

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movies

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all thats happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop – stop dead – and I miss it. – Richard Pryor

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movies

I was watching Up In The Air and I thought, Jesus, whos the old gray-haired guy? And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now its starting to show. – George Clooney

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movies

My movies are unadorned, theyre not particularly fancy, I think theyre kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. – Ben Affleck

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movies

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A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women. – Edgar Wallace

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Women

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished. – William Ernest Hocking

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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. – Henry Mayhew

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What Im working on now – Im back to fantasy, although considering that its me, Im turning it into a kind of science fantasy. Its a vampire story – but my vampires are biological vampires. They didnt become vampires because someone bit them they were born that way. – Octavia Butler

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