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I hate it when people let their professionalism get in the way of real life.
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Do you want me to strangle him now, or wait till he's finished annoying you?
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I'm beyond introspective self-loathing by now--you lose it fast in this line of work.
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Some of the worst crimes against humanity are committed by architecture students.
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I'm only twenty-eight: I'm too young to die and too old to drive fast.
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Not only is the past another country, it's one that doesn't issue visas.
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In this line of work, too much paranoia can be worse than too little.
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Beauty may be skin-deep, but horror goes all the way down to the desiccated bone beneath.
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She's half-past overdrawn at the bank of life.
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The trouble is, you can ignore history--but history won't necessarily ignore you.
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But who cares?That is, indeed, the big-ticket question.
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Let's just say that you can't always trust the historical record and move swiftly on.
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Once is happenstance but twice is enemy action, and thrice is a fuck-up.
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Time is the one thing money can't buy.
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What price an immortal soul, when booty beckons?
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Never attribute to incompetence that which can be adequately explained by jet lag.
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I'm stranded in limbo, otherwise known as downtown Denver.
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I am at a loss for words to describe my lack of eagerness to go there.
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One of the great besetting problems of the modern age is what to do with too much information.
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Superficial appearances are misleading precisely because, so much of the time, they're accurate.
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Having a policy based on works of fiction is worse than having no policy at all.
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If pauses can be pregnant, this one's on the run from a fertility clinic.
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Unfortunately his IQ seems to be off the scale, in the wrong direction.
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We're from the Ministry of Defense: our sense of humor is surgically excised at birth.
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You keep invoking some God but I don't think he's listening right now.
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Governments are machines for producing and implementing legal frameworks.
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And because this is now a political problem, the usual political syllogism applies:
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I don't understand exactly what she thinks we need to talk about, but maybe that's half the problem.
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Well, incoming fire has right of way, as they say.
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Lord Acton said power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
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Venous blood isn't really blue. In lipstick terms it's dark plum, not crimson gloss.
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A current generation smartphone is more powerful than a 1991 supercomputer.
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Contingency time is useless wasted time, right until you need it.
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Anxiety loves company almost as much as misery.
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