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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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