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What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.
Cleveland Amory
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Cleveland Amory
Age: 81 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 2
Died: 1998
Died: October 15
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It suddenly dawned on me one day, when I was reading in the paper about a woman wrestler, that being a curmudgeon was the last thing in the world that a man can be that a woman cannot be. Women can be irritating -- after all, they are women -- but they cannot be curmudgeons.
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I told the good Father that if he and I were going in the future to some wonderful Elysian Field and the animals were not going to go anywhere, that was all the more reason to give them a little better shake in the one life they did have.
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The customer is always right! John Wanamaker must be turning in his grave. If you're a customer today, you're an intruder.
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I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.
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I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.
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Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.
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You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.
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Have you ever heard one civilized person whose opinion you respect, at any time, anywhere, in any civilized country anywhere, say the good new days?
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...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.
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As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.
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Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.
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I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
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I will omit but I will not distort.
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Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for a baby, a dog, a book, a warship, a sports team, even the king, the pope or a hurricane is just child's play compared to the selection of the cat's name.
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Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.
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It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.
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To anyone who has ever been owned by a cat, it will come as no surprise that there are all sorts of things about your cat you will never, as long as you live, forget. Not the least of these is your first sight of him or her.
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Support your right to arm bears.
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A good family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
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Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not.
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