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“What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera ... notes with relentless fidelity.”
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“Let's wind back the privatization of war and the military's dependence on contractors for what used to be military functions. Our troops need to peel their own potatoes again, drive their own supply trucks, build their own barracks, guard their own generals. ... Private contractors are not cheaper, and they are certainly not indispensable. We operated without them for a long, long time, and did just fine, thank you very much.”
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“Old age makes caricatures of us all.”
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“... the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.”
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“A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to diversify, plus the temperament to stand back from your money and make rational decisions.”
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“You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief. ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks.”
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“A surefire method of setting up regular communication with your kids is to get a job in an office which discourages personal phone calls. Your kids will then call you every hour on the hour.”
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“The national psyche purged itself from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s in the War on Poverty only to wage war on poor people.”