It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.
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It’s odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, ‘I’ve been reading you all my life.’ It makes you feel a slight chill.
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We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.
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On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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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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I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
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I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.
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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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What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Baseball is the favorite American sport because it’s so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.
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As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
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