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"His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle."

"How can you possibly take exception with the motivation and the position of someone like Cindy Sheehan?"

"Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive. And with it, everything honorable and glorious."

"I'm sure the liars as skillful and persistent and devious as you reach the point where it's the one you are lying to, and not you, who seems like the one with the serious limitations."

"I—Don't shoot me!" "What's wrong with you?"

"Lunch with the FT: Ha-Joon Chang"

"Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age."

"Lysander said, "Where the lion's skin will not reach, it must be pieced with the fox's."

"The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour."

"Once let a man grow up amidst Brooklyn’s cobblestones, with the odor of Newton Creek and Gowanus Canal ever in his nostrils, and there’s no place in the world for him except Brooklyn."

"There has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger for a wedge and a pumpkin for a beetle."

"I don't believe in flying saucers... The energy requirements of interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space …"

"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."

"We've been conditioned to avoid silence at all costs lest we be confronted with our own inner chaos."

"Precisely because the Soviet Union adopted "the capitalist heavy-industry definition of economic modernization," socialism remained caught within a very specific capitalist model of economic developme…"

"Even after the only person whose opinion I cared about left on a boat for America, I continued to fill pages with her name."

"I am thirteen. At long last, not a cored apple. Not an empty milk bottle greased with vaseline, but a girl in a slip, with two tits and a cunt — and a mustache, but who am I to be picky."

"What's wrong with ? If there's no vanity, that's the end of show business."

"I can guarantee they had had no contacts with China. We have cross-checked with various sources and were sure that the case had nothing to do with China. China has had no role in the case so far."

"The role of the manager is overrated, anyhow. Look at Stengel. When he was with the Yankees, loaded with material, he was a winner. When he moved over to the Mets, he finished last. They voted Casey t…"