"If life weren't so short it would be worth people's while to do more to put the world to rights."

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“I don't understand women. Nobody does. Least of all themselves.”

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"They even want unelected panels of bureaucrats to decide who gets what life-saving medical care and who is just too old or it’s too expensive to be worth saving."

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