"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."
-Gore Vidal
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"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests."
-Gore Vidal
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"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
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"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
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"The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue."
-Steve Irwin
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"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."
-Anne Tyler
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"Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community."
-Brigham Young
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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
-Donna Mills
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
-Thomas More
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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