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Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough.(2) Too much.

Ann Landers

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Landers, Ann. Ann Landers Says: Truth is Stranger. Prentice-Hall, 1968, ch. 2.

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There'll be great Presidents again-and the Johnsons are wonderful, they've been wonderful to me-but there'll never be another Camelot again.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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Kennedy-Onassis, Jacqueline. Life Magazine. 6 Dec. 1963.

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We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through.

Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1913, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Address in Paris. c. Dec. 1929, Sorbonne, Paris, France.

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Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on Classifications." New York Times, 16 Feb. 1930.

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We were good fellas. Wiseguys. But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood. It didn't even matter that my mother was Sicilian. To become a member of a crew you've got to be one hundred percent Italian so they can trace all your relatives back to the old country. See, it's the highest honor they can give you. It means you belong to a family and a crew. It means that nobody can fuck around with you. It also means you could fuck around with anybody just as long as they aren't also a member. It's like a license to steal. It's a license to do anything.

Henry Hill

Goodfellas

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Goodfellas. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Warner Bros., 1990.

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We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them.

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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Nixon, Richard. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1969, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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They don't care. Just so long as you're wearing a skirt. It's like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

Some Like it Hot

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Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

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The tragedy of love is indifference.

William Somerset Maugham

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Maugham. William Somerset. The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands. George H. Doran Company, 1921.

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A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

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Wolfe, Tom. "Entr'actes and Canapes." In Our Time. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980.

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Renoir painted his whole life long, down to his very last day. He painted a little still life of fruit, in bed, the day before he died.

Henri Matisse

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Matisse, Henri. Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview. Interviewed by Pierre Courthion, edited by Serge Guilbaut, translated by Chris Miller. Getty Publications, 2013, p. 90.

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I always say, religion is a fine thing, taken in moderation.

Trading Places

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Trading Places. Directed by John Landis, Paramount Pictures Studios/Cinema Group Ventures, 1983.

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No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Graham Greene

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Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 1, pt. 3, ch. 1, sec. 1.

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Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continents stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Johnson, Lyndon B. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1965, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The first half of this century has been marked by unprecedented and brutal attacks on the rights of man, and by the two most frightful wars in history. The supreme need of our time is for men to learn to live together in peace and harmony.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman

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Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

O. Henry

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O. Henry. "The Octopus Marooned." The Gentle Grafter. The McClure Company, 1908.

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These unhappy times call for the building of plans that... Build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "The Forgotten Man Speech." 7 April 1932, Albany, NY, USA.

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 39.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 39.

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The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. On the Recession. Fireside chat. 14 Apr. 1938, Diplomatic Reception Room, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. Die Tranzendente Funktion [The Transcendent Function]. C. G. Jung Institute, 1957.

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But you know that when the truth is told, that you can get what you want, or you can just get old.

Billy Joel

Vienna

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Joel, Billy. "Vienna." The Stranger. Columbia Records, 1977.

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