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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation.

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