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

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Knowledge
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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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Family
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Land: A part of the earths surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. – Ambrose Bierce

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Society

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. – Scott Adams

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Society

America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard. – Mikhail Gorbachev

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The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests. – Edwin Louis Cole

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Were getting ready to take over the world. My group of girlfriends – were renegades. – Lisa Bonet

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It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. – Stephen Mallarme

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Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. – Walter Winchell

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. – G. K. Chesterton

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