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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
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I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
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