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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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Thinking is harder work than hard work.
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The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.
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The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy, the purpose of life is to matter.
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