Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it.
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Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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I gave up on new poetry myself thirty years ago, when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens on a hostile world.
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
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In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
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Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.
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