Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

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