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(341 votes)   A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

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(329 votes)   Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

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(66 votes)   The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

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(64 votes)   Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

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(60 votes)   I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

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(60 votes)   The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

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(60 votes)   When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

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(59 votes)   Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

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(59 votes)   Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

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(58 votes)   The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

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(58 votes)   The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.

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(56 votes)   The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.

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(54 votes)   What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.

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(52 votes)   The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.

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