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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.


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They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.



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I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.



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Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.



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As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later



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People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.



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The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.





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