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With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.


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JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never ...
JONATHAN RABAN What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I ...
JONATHAN KATZ