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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

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The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.
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Country Finding People State
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
The only thing that I react really violently to is being misquoted.
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Misunderstanding Quote Reaction Violence
Actually, I can’t remember when I was not writing.
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Myself Remember Writing
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
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Death Department Nation State
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We also had most of the money. America’s hegemony lasted exactly five years.
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Damage End Greatness Nation Powerful War
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.
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Democracy Form High Ourselves Scale
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
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Adult Advertise Captive Rise World
The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.
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Death Forever Human Race
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
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Better Narcissism Yourself
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father Myself Remember

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