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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

Gore Vidal

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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Class Genius heavy Ourselves Rule System
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
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Impulse People Person Practice Sexual
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
I never said I was gay, because I don’t think anyone is.
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Myself Sexuality Thinking
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature
As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.
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Himself Man Material President Time
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
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Appearance Chance Missing Television
The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.
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Himself Interesting Money
Remember, I’m West Point, where I was born. My father went there.
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Born Father 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

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