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"I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."

"My clothes are wet, tight on my skin/but not as tight as the corner I painted myself in."

"The Catholic Church itself has been nearly killed by the infection of the puritanism of the Reformation."

"I couldn't possibly have become a member of this institute if I hadn't founded it myself."

"Creationist Arguments: The Monkey Quote from talk.origins"

"By 'trading' , individuals can acquire certainty."

"It is ego that makes a man."

"He was so arrogant that he spoke of himself in the plural."

"Information on the origins of Hall's most famous statement"

"I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else."

"A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes."

"The world belongs to those who possess it, and is scorned by those to whom it should belong."

"I told myself I had no choice but in a situation like that the choice you have is how you go about not having a choice."

"It means you don’t like where you’ve been, the place where you are is grim, and the only place you see yourself going is not an improvement on what’s gone before."

"1345. Drunkenness turns a Man out of himself, and leaves a Beast in his room."

"The news leak is a pseudo‑event par excellence. In its origin and growth, the leak illustrates another axiom of the world of pseudo‑events: pseudo‑events produce more pseudo‑events."

"The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless."

"In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect."

"Diana got that seventh-sense intimation that she had touched on an unmentionable matter; although a strangely involuted one whereby the fact that it was unmentionable was itself unmentionable."

"Discussion of Dick Cavett's unique talent on MetaFilter"