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" I vote and I do jury duty. "

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" It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in. "

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" I wanted to write. "

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" I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come. "

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" I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process. "

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" 'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. "

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" The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home. "

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" You notice how liberals keep saying, 'If only Islam would have a Reformation' - it can't have one. It says it can't. It's extremely dangerous in that way. "

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" I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second. "

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" Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness. "

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" The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation. "

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" I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do. "

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" Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. "

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" Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. "

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" No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis. "

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