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Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck. – Raymond Chandler

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The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder case in the world to break is the one somebody tried to get very cute with; the one that really bothers them is the murder somebody only thought of two minutes before he pulled it off. – Raymond Chandler

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Murder
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Raymond Chandler
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be. – Raymond Chandler

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Cats
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Raymond Chandler
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Society
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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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Society

Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals. – Oscar Wilde

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Society

Although I dont have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way. – Bill Gates

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Society

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. – Robertson Davies

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Society

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