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" I worked out early on to give up things I couldn't do well at all. "

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" To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. "

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" The people who tend to raise antiwar slogans will do so generally when it's American or British interests involved. "

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" The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. "

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" It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder. "

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