Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

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Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)

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In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

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Idealist: a cynic in the making.

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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.

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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing they are as clever as you.

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Progress of a marriage: 'There was a time when you couldn't...

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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

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Progress of a marriage: "There was a time when you couldn't...

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