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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. Fran Lebowitz

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Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. Fran Lebowitz

Relieved Tend Obvious Sticky Children Washed Even

Humility is no substitute for a good personality. Fran Lebowitz

Good Personality Humility Substitute

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. Fran Lebowitz

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Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture. Frank Rich

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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next. Franklin P. Jones

You Unpredictable Never Catch Know Going Children Next Inconsistency

I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade. Gail Collins

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Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader. George Noory

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Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. George Will

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Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy, have been followed by Democrats, and both FDR and JFK died in office, so their successors ran as incumbents. George Will

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Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution. George Will

Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. George Will

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The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression. George Will

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Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one. George Will

You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. Geraldine Brooks

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. Geraldine Brooks

War You Think Soldier Honour Sacrifices Glorifying Without Common

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