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Our great-grandchildren, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat . . . may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

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A man must be sacrificed now and againTo provide for the next generation of men.

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I'll die propped up in bed trying to do a poem about America.

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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment -- and nothing more corrupting.

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Fiction is experimentation when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.

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We thank with brief thanksgivingWhatever gods may beThat no man lives forever,That dead men rise up neverThat even the weariest riverWinds somewhere safe to sea.

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

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Leadership does not depend on being right.

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I agree with you that the name of Spiro Agnew is not a household name. I certainly hope that it will become one within the next couple of months.

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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.

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Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

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It was not her sex appeal but the obvious relish with which she devoured the hamburger that made my pulse begin to hammer with excitement.

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PURITANISM The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

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MoonMoonI am prone before you.Pity me,And drench me in loneliness.

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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues it means taking pleasure in them.

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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of pseudo-scholars.

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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president. . . except me.

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Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

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Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

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If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

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An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians.

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