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The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

Almost every venerable tradition at a men’s club starts out as a joke.

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.

The problem isn’t that people don’t understand how good things are. It’s that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren’t that good.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I’m one of their family.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.