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“If girls are highbrow, they must keep it pretty dark. It's a potential sin, and if it is acute, to expose it is sure to make men take to their heels.”
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“Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray gun.”
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“[On retirement:] It was like walking down a red carpet and then turning to find the attendants rolling it up behind you.”
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“Sometimes I think it's a universal trait that parents don't ever seem able to see their offspring for what they really are. Maybe that's what keep parents from murdering their children ...”
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“That woman ... would use the third-rising of a corpse for her ends.”
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“Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, particularly if we are trying to manipulate language for a specific purpose. That is what is happening with our attempts at inclusive language, which thus far have been inconclusive and unsuccessful.”
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“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
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“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.”