No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international … - Alistair Cooke

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When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.

Alistair Cooke

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

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If computers take over, it will serve us right.

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To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.

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Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

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Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.

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To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer. ' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

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As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.

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When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.

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In the mirrors of the many judgments, my hands are the color of blood. I sometimes fancy myself an evil which exists to oppose other evils; and on that great Day of which the prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on the day the world is utterly cleansed of evil, then I too will go down into darkness, swallowing curses. Until then, I will not wash my hands nor let them hang useless.

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