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Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.

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Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

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Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway.

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How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.

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Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.

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