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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

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There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

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The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

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The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

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A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.

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Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

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