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All phone calls are obscene.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to fix it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the centre.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems. This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry--or laugh.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.