Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.
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Gossip is conversation about people.
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Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they’re scraping the top of the barrel.
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Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
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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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Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
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Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.
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I am told the Cheney-Bush team dislikes their junta being compared to the Nazis. If they ceased behaving like Nazis, no comparison would come to mind.
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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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I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Some of my father’s fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And he said, ‘I never gave him any advice, and he never asked for any.’ We agreed on nothing, but we never quarreled once.
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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
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The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.
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