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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.

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The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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I would like to take you seriously but to do so would affront your intelligence.

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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

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It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

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The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

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A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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