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" I did a bunch of blue-collar jobs, because I knew I'd wind up with a white-collar job at some point, and I wanted to, I don't know, I just wanted to taste life. I dug graves for a while, I worked as a stock boy in a big department store, I worked in a bank. "

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" In Britain, libel damages are small and people build them into the cost of doing business. In America, libel is very rare and much harder to prove, but the damages are enormous. "

" I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. "

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" It's a rare moment when we take a break from the tribulations of the daily rat race to reflect on assumptions and values that we casually accept as gospel. "

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" As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals. "

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" Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. "

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" It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure. "

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" Branding experts believe that just because they have rethought a company's image or name, the rest of us will automatically fall in line. "

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