After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure … - Frank Bruni

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I tell ya, sex is getting harder all the time. Me and my wife were trying to have sex for hours last night and I finally gave up. I asked her, "what, you can't think of anybody either?"

Frank Bruni

After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

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Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

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I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

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In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

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We are spending so much time in studios, and in chairs listening to somebody at a lectern, and if we really understood what Americans were concerned about and what resentments were building, we would not have been as shocked by Donald Trump's success.

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[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

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Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.

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Stephen King

There's something in us that is very much attracted to madness. Everyone who looks off the edge of a tall building has felt at least a faint, morbid urge to jump. And anyone who has ever put a loaded pistol up to his head. . . All right, my point is this: even the most well-adjusted person is holding onto his or her sanity by a greased rope. I really believe that. The rationality circuits are shoddily built into the human animal.

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Swami Vivekananda

There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body.

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Dennis Miller

Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong.

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