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“I find that, in general, the amount of sharing men do with each other in one year is about the same as what I share with my female friends while we wait for our cars at the valet.”
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“Our security must be threatened in order for us to appreciate it.”
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“I was raised by and have raised people who regard telling one story when two would do as a sign someone is not really trying.”
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“My idea of marriage, as of every other partnership, ... is that each member shall contribute to it his or her personality, unrepressed and uncoerced. Thus, and only thus, we obtain the most complex synthesis possible, which may well surpass in beauty, as it surely does in interest and human value, the separate elements of such an association.”
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“The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.”
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“A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.”
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“The mind's health, as well as the body's, is promoted by occasional privation or abstinence.”
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“... whatever your color or creed may be, when you get too close to civilization, you can probably expect to be done in.”