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My mom was paranoid about my safety.

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Mom was a smoker. My grandfather was a smoker. My aunts were smokers. My uncles were smokers. I don't know any smokers now, not even my mom.

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People are quite frequently eccentric.

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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

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Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

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English majors understand human nature better than economists do.

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There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.

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Respect and fear are two different things.

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The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

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Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 26th, 1949

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