- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.
- Bump
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- Nov 07, 2020
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
- Confessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
- Longer
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- Nov 07, 2020
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.
- Masses
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't enjoy light verse with a heavy heart.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans like fat books and thin women.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In America nothing dies easier than tradition.
- American Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.
- Economic Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.
- Hear
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- Nov 07, 2020