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In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)
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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
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Americans are overreachers overreaching is the most admirable of the many American excesses.
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