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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Life insurance is a dying industry.?

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You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

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Save your explanations, I got some questions for you first and you'd better answer them!' [slurred Hellian.] 'With what?' [Banaschar] sneered. 'Explanations?' 'No. Answers. There's a difference-' 'Really? How? What difference?' 'Explanations are what people use when they need to lie. Y'can always tell those,'cause those don't explain nothing and then they look at you like they just cleared things up when really they did the opposite and they know it and you know it and they know you know and you know they know that you know and they know you and you know them and maybe you go out for a pitcher later but who picks up the tab? That's what I want to know.' 'Right, and answers?' 'Answers is what I get when I ask questions. Answers is when you got no choice. I ask, you tell. I ask again, you tell some more. Then I break your fingers, 'cause I don't like what you're telling me, because those answers don't explain nothing!

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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.

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One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand

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The Bibbidi Bobbidi Beautiful boutique, the name filled me with dread.

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It was not that he was feckless, more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck.

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It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path.

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I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

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Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.

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I can run 50 yards faster than I can mow them.?

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