Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.Alistair Cooke
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly, that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the 1st place the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.
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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
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All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.
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