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The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

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The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
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Finding Greatness Pleasure Possible
There is only one party in the United States: the Property party… and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.
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Democracy Party Politics Republic
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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Fascination Myself Remember
To preserve the human race, it is now necessary to reorganize society. To this end, an Authority must be created with the power to control human population, to redistribute food, to purify air, water, soil, to re-pattern the cities.
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Food Human Pattern Population Preserve Race Recognition
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
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Government Need People Philosophy Religion
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
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Attack Death Earth Ourselves Thinking
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
Temperamentally, I am suspicious of belonging to anything. When I ran for office, I debated seriously whether or not to run as an independent because I was not eager to be saddled with the Democratic Party, because any party label is committing.
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Commitment Democracy Government Independent Party Politics Serious
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
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Government Repeat Willing
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
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Definition Preparation President

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