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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

—Sigmund Freud

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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

—Robert Benchley

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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

—Ronald Reagan

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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

—Solomon Short

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Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

—G. K. Chesterton

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

—Voltaire

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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

—Richard Bach

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I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

—Dorothy Parker

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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

—Thomas Sowell

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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It was funny how all the useless knowledge you accumulated when you’re in love with someone could sit for years gathering dust in the back of your mind, only to spill out at the slightest reminder.

—Blakney Francis in Someone I Used to Know

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People always put their own spin on things, remember what they want to remember, and somewhere in the middle of it all is the truth—the real version.

—Jessi Kirby in Golden

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Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

—Fred Allen

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Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

—Virgil Thomson

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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

—Winston Churchill

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