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All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a litera

All literary men are Red Sox fans – to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. – John Cheever

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When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places. – John Cheever

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. – John Cheever

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Our modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth. – Clint Eastwood

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Complication has penetrated everywhere. Few people have an immediate insight into moral truth such as nature has revealed it. Almost all men, even the least cultivated, only see invisible things through phrases. Intuition is very rare, ready-made phrases are common and cheap. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Philosophy. First Section: Pure Philosophy. C

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Our whole society is instantaneous. – Bryan Cranston

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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. – Jean Cocteau

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To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller

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Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. Thats whats important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times. – LeBron James

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Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure. – Andrew Card

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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production. – Robert Anton Wilson

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