To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.
GORE VIDALWhenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
More Gore Vidal Quotes
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He who is last had best laugh.
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My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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TV news is not very instructive.
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The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
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All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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As for my support for Obama, remember that I was brought up in Washington. It was an all-black city when I was a kid. And I’ve always been very pro-African-American – or whatever phrase we now use.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I mean, that’s the last thing I wanted.
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A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.
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I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
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It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
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To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds.
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Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
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