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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves m

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone. – John Updike

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. – John Updike

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We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. – John Updike

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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening. – J. J. Abrams

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But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldnt at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of whats going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone. – Nancy Kerrigan

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Not drunk is he who from the floor – Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. – Thomas Love Peacock

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