A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
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To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.
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One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
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What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
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It is the test of a good religion whether you can make a joke about it.
Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
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Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.
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If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
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You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
