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Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.

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The Pentagon talks about our power to ‘overkill’ Russia ten times, twenty times, perhaps forty-eight times. For my tax money, it is sufficient to overkill them once.
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Money Talk Tax Time
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
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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Candidate Democracy Issues Place
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
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Myself Novel Reading Writing
The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of ‘Tales from Livy’ that I’d found in my grandfather’s library.
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Book Edition Grown Library Reading
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 am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
The United States is a madhouse.
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Country Home Madness State
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
Jews, blacks and homosexuals are despised by the Christian and Communist majorities of East and West. Also, as a result of the invention of Israel, Jews can now count on the hatred of the Islamic world.
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Black Communist Hate Result World
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
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In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
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Camp Concentration Discrimination German Oppression
When I say ‘president,’ I still mean Roosevelt – wisely, I think.
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Myself President Thinking
I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults.
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Adult Consent Myself
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution

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